Questions tagged [maximum]
Questions on finding the largest value of a set, extreme values of an expression, or on Mathematica functionality for maxima testing.
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Local extrema points of a function of two variables
i need to find local extrema points of a function of two variables, but it doesnt work
FindMaximum[x^3 - 2 y^3 - 3 x + 6 y, {x, y}]
I have this error:
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Find global maximum of InterpolatingFunction in interval but not maximum value
I have InterpolatingFunction generated from experimental data with many local maxima, one major peak I need to find, and the tail that grouse much higher then major peak. I tried to find my peak with ...
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Parametric minimization of a quadratic expression in two variables
I am not an expert in using Mathematica, and I do not understand the following result (apologies if it appears trivial). I want to find the general solution to minimize the following expression over $...
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Find the minimum & maximum and plot it with the mean data
Hi I have ten data set and manage to calculate the mean using them. However I hope to find out the upper and lower limit in each point and plot it out with the mean data.
May I ask how can I ...
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How do I find the minimum and maximum values of a function of two variable with constraints? [closed]
The question is find the minima and maxima of the function
$$f(x,y)= x^2+5y^2+11x-12y+30$$
on $(x^2)/81+(y^2)/49 \leq 1.$
I've been trying to use FindMaxValue and <...
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Finding maximum of 2D interpolating function as a function of one of the variables
I am solving a 2D PDE in space and time b(r,t) and would like to find the maximum value of b in space as a function of time t.
Using the solution for maximising a 1D interpolating function from here, ...
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extremum points
I'm trying to find Min and Max points of the polynomial below, but it seems that the expression is very complicated to mathematical, I've tried a numerical function, such as NMinimize, NRoots, Solve, ...
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How to obtain the most accurate maximum value of the given equation? Changing WorkingPrecision gives different results
I have two functions $ f(x,y) $ and $ g(x,y) $ over the domains $ 1.56 <x< 1.6$ and $3<y<\pi$.
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How to calculate the maximum value of $x $ which satisfy the conditions $g(x,y)=0$ and $f(x,y)>1$?
I have two functions $ f(x,y) $ and $ g(x,y) $ over the domains $ 1<x< 2$ and $0<y<\pi$. I use ContourPlot to ses those values of $(x,y)$ for which $g(...
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Find maximum value of a function - wrong output? [closed]
I want to find the local maximum value of the function:
where the domain is 0 < x < 3/2.
Wolfram|Alpha gives me the correct answer while Mathematica gives me a totally different answer. Why is ...
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Full Information Maximum Likelihood - Under some other name in Mathematica
I have recently stumbled upon something called FIML - Full Information Maximum Likelihood. Apparently this methodology helps overcome missing variables provided the gaps are random. Searching the ...
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Argument of maximum value of a table in range
I have
data = {{817, 501}, {818, 549}, {819, 562}, {820, 534}, {821, 534}, {822, 535}, {823, 516}};
How to find argument "822" for 535 (which is the ...
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Maximize function problem [closed]
I don't understand why I'm getting no solution with the Maximize function in this case:
while it returns the right result when I impose $y\leq0.999$ (or, equivalently, $x\leq0.999$):
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NMaximize - global maximum fail - How to?
Problem :
Let x,y,z be non-negative real number whose sum is 1.
Find maximum of 0.2x + 0.2y + x^2*z + y*z^2
What I did first was reducing variable.
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Solving a system of equations as part of maximizing a multivariable function
This is my code
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How can I set a find max value function with parameter in NDSolve
For example, Here is a NDSolve function with a parameter of w
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NMaximize computes wrong value
This question is a continuation of NIntegrate with a complicated function over the 4-sphere . Now I define a certain new function called "improvement" via:
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Polygon Diameter
I want to calculate the diameter of a convex polygon. That is, the largest distance between any pair of vertices. Here's my approach
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Maximization under constraints / find maxima
I am trying to code the following maximization program that I am not able to solve algebraically (Of course I manage to get the first derivative, but struggle finding its root):
$\begin{equation} Max_{...
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How can I mark the maximum value in a plot?
How can I mark the maximum value in a graph?
The graph that I would like to determine its maximum value, is an output of the following program:
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NIntegrate allegedly evaluating to non-numerical values
I'm getting non-numerical-evaluation error messages despite not having any symbolic variables in my code.
Here's a MWE representative of what I'm doing:
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How do I get actual solutions from MaxValue?
Say I want to calculate the maximum value of a simple function of two variables:
f[r_, t_]:= r Cos[t]^3 (1 + r Sin[t])
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Maximize - Non binding constraint is changing the result
When I add a non-binding constraint to a maximization problem the result changes. I don't understand why.
Below you can find the code that I am using.
For the maximization A, H = 6837.66
For the ...
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How to best compute the maximum value of a multivariable function?
I'm new to Mathematica. I have the function:
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Syntax error in NMaximize despite following official documentation
This is the code I'm trying to run:
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Maximize a function over complexes
Assume that I have a bounded real valued function $h(a,b)$ such that $a\in \mathbb{C}$ and $b\in [0,1]$. Can Mathematica maximize such function over $\mathbb{C}\times [0,1]$?
I tried some functions ...
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Unable to formulate the correct formulation for maximize a function
So, i want to express these:
$$\max(\cos(x)\cos(y)\cos(z)),\quad x+y+z=\pi,\quad x,y,z\in(0,\pi]$$
Attempt:
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NMaximize seems not to work with a plottable function
I am trying to use maximum likelihood for estimating a parameter for a model based on some experimental data. The likelihood function I am trying to maximize calls a number of custom functions I have ...
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Find maximal elements of list (remove dominated elements)
Suppose I consider a to be greater than b if a[[1]] >= b[[1]] and ...
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Find largest and second larges number in each row and column
I am trying to find the largest and second largest number in each row and column. The largest numbers are easy, but how do I find the second largest?
After I found them I also want to calculate the ...
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Is it possible to ask Mathematica to give the maximum value of a function over a specific domain?
I have a function $f(n)$ over $n\in\mathbb{N}$. I want to know its maximum value over a very large domain, say $n=1,2,3,4,...,10^6$. Is there a way to ask Mathematica to give me the maximum value of ...
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Nested optimization problem - Function approximation
I need to maximize the following function (the input to NMaximize below)
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How to find maximum of two or more parametric functions?
I have two parametric functions in which I know the range of parameters and I want to find the maximum of these two functions by conditions on the value of the variable. Suppose $f(x)=x-c$ and $g(x)=r....
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Maximum of all distances between any pairs of vertices of a random triangle
Given a set $S_n$ of $n$ points selected uniformly at random in a $d$-ball, I want to estimate the average length of the longest side of a triangle having as vertices any three distinct points of $S_n$...
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How do I find the maximum of a certain complex expression? [closed]
I have this expression:
TFilter1 = -(7.5438*10^8/(6.34731*10^8 + 48270.2 s + s^2))
where s is a complex variable give by $s = ...
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Finding/Printing Variables that Correspond to the Maximum Output of a List
I am very new to Mathematica and been having a problem that is frustrating because I feel that there must be a simple solution which I just can't grasp.
Essentially, I am looking to automatically ...
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Maximize a simple expression based on EuclideanDistance takes too long
Do you know if there is a mistake in this command syntax? It is very simple and still it takes too long. I cannot obtain any result at all:
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I want to maximise my function over a particular domain
I have tried NMaximise. But I am getting an error always. Even if my command is correct. My function is
Cos[π E^x]
and I want to maximise it over the range (-3,3)
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Finding the smallest function and the domain on which it is smallest
Given a list of functions what is the best way to find the domains on which each function is the smallest. Simple example
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Maximize an expression with respect to a variable after its minimization with respect to other variables
I started to use Mathematica a few time ago. I want to minimize the following expression (function of $l,p,q,r,c$) with respect to variables $l, p, q, r$ and then maximize the result obtained with ...
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Minimize a function of a variable of four variables and one parameter with constraints
I just started to use Mathematica. Using the following simple command to minimize a function of variables $a,b,c,d$ with parameter $n$, it takes too much time. Do you know if there is a mistake in ...
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NMinimize: How to avoid solutions that do not satisfy constraints within a certain tolerance?
I just started to use Mathematica a few weeks ago. Using NMinimze, I would like to avoid solutions that do not satisfy certain constraints (although they "almost" satisfy them). Do you know ...
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Maximize taking too long
I just started to use Mathematica a few weeks ago. I am afraid there is something that does not work on my laptop because, for the following simple command, it takes too much time. Do you know if ...
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Finding the maximum of a piecewise function
I have the following piecewise function of the variable $e_f$:
$$g(a,b,c,w,F,e_h,e_f)=\begin{cases}
\frac{(c-a e_f) (e_f (4e_f w-a)+c)}{8 b e_f^2} & \left(e_f=e_h\land e_f>\frac{c}{a}\...
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Problems in optimizing a function over two variables
The following function needs to be maximized over the variable $a1$ and $a2$ in the range $0 \le a1 <1$ and $0\le a2 <1$:
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How to find the local maximum and minium points,as well as the interval of increase/decrease on the derivative equation [closed]
How to find the local maximum and minimum points, as well as the interval of increase/decrease on the derivative equation,x^6-10x^5-780^3+2500x^2
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