Abstract: The Nelder-Mead simplex method is a well-known algorithm enabling the minimization of functions that are not available in closed-form and that need not be differentiable or convex.

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# Set up your simplex tableau here. Set vector v below to all the entries in the matrix starting at (1,1) and move down # the columns as you enter all values. For example, the first three entries ...

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