Project Goals

Here, I list down the project goals as stated in my Wiki page:

          Start of GSoC (May) 

1. 'lsqnonlin' using 'nonlin_residmin'
2. 'lsqcurvefit' using 'nonlin_curvefit', 'nonlin_residmin', or 'lsqnonlin',
3. 'fmincon' using 'nonlin_min',
4. 'nlinfit' using 'leasqr',
   Midterm
    
5. Test cases for the above functions [10] .
6. Instead of wrappers for top-level functions like qp, call back-end function (__qp__) to be able to extract lambda. See [11].
   Stretch Goals
   
7.  Further missing functions in Optim package. See [12] Implement another back-end algorithm/add variant.

 Details

 6.  quadprog and lsqlin should call a private intermediate function instead of qp.m

 This private function should do the argument processing for calling __qp__. It could also be configured to call yet to be written alternatives to __qp__ .
Among other things this should make ordering of the 'lambda' output feasible.

((I have yet to study __qp__ and how this will be done))