CEoptim: Cross-Entropy R Package for Optimization

The cross-entropy (CE) method is a simple and versatile technique for optimization, based on Kullback-Leibler (or cross-entropy) minimization. The method can be applied to a wide range of optimization tasks, including continuous, discrete, mixed and constrained optimization problems. The new package...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tim Benham, Qibin Duan, Dirk P. Kroese, Benoît Liquet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2017-02-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
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Online Access:https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/3035