Dim has it exactly right here. On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Dimitri Pourbaix <pourb...@astro.ulb.ac.be > wrote:
> In optimization, the user supplies the function to be minimised. In curve > fitting, the user supplies a series of observations and the model to be > fitted. Trying to combine both into a unique scheme (how highly abstract > it is) is simply misleading. >
