>>>>> "SG" == Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com> writes:
SG> If you know nothing about the black box except that its domain is SG> bounded, then I would random sample uniformly from the domain. If the SG> function is monotonically increasing in all variables, then you only SG> need to test the two extreme points. If you know other things, you SG> may be able to use the other logic. So I was overthinking it, then. As it turns out, for most of the functions in question, the convex hull of the range, as determined by uniform samples w/in the domain, was only slightly bigger than the convex hull of the full set of extreme points of the domain. And for my needs, then, the latter is a good-enough approximation of the former after all. Thanks! -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
