Optimization

Explanation of tables

*	green	Function exists in octave 2.0.x Noted incompatibilities and missing features
+	yellow	Function exists in matcompat Author and home for the function.
?	orange	Function doesn't exist Explanation of what you can do instead.
x	red	Function doesn't exist, and no work-around

Yinyu Ye has matlab code for linear, nonlinear and quadratic programming (no license specified). Ben Sapp has code for constrained and unconstrained nonlinear minimization included herein, and lp for linear programming. Etienne Grossman has code for downhill simplex (unconstrained nonlinear minimization), conjugate gradient and Davidson-Fletcher-Powell. Francesco Potorti has converted Richard Shrager, Ray Muzic and Arthur Jutan's least squares routines included herein.

Minimization

x	fminsearch
x	fminunc
+	fminbnd	Paul Kienzle, renamed from Ben Sapp's gs
x	fmincon
x	fseminf
x	fgoalattain
x	fminimax
x	linprog
x	quadprog

Data fitting

x	lsqnonlin
x	lsqcurvefit
x	lsqnonneg
x	lsqlin

Root finding

*	fsolve
+	fzero	Paul Kienzle

Optimization controls

x	optimset
x	optimget