[ADMB Users] Application of 'sort' function to variables

[Mike Prager]

Are you trying to implement least median of squares?

kvk wrote on 4/26/2010 5:03 PM:
> So in light of that, how might I approach extracting the median of an
> unordered vector? I could define it as a variable and minimize the sum
> of the absolute deviations of each vector member from the median, but
> that seems clumsy and I'm not sure how I would approach minimizing
> that variable.
>
> On Apr 21, 7:50 am, dave fournier<ot... at otter-rsch.com>  wrote:
>    
>> It would be simple to modify the dmatrix version to sort dvariables, but
>> in practice most applications would probably not be differentiable.
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