Hi, thank you very much for the reply! Consider minimize quadratic form w'Aw with A be the following matrix.
> Dmat/2 [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1.0 0.5 0.8 [2,] 0.5 1.0 0.9 [3,] 0.8 0.9 1.0 I need to find w=(w1,w2,w3), a 3 by 1 vector, such that sum(w)=3, and wi>=0 for all i. Below is the code I wrote, using the function solve.QP , however, the solution for w still have a negtive component. Can some one give me some suggestions? Thank you very much! > x <- 2*c(1,0.5,0.8,0.5,1,0.9, 0.8,0.9,1) > Dmat <- matrix(x, byrow=T, nrow=3, ncol=3) > dvec <- numeric(3) > Amat <- matrix(0,3,4) > Amat[,1 ] <- c(1,1,1) > Amat[,2:4 ]<- t(diag(3)) > bvec <- c(3,0,0,0) > > solve.QP(Dmat,dvec,Amat,bvec=bvec) $solution [1] 1.500000e+00 1.500000e+00 -8.881784e-16 $value [1] 6.75 $unconstrained.solution [1] 0 0 0 $iterations [1] 3 0 $Lagrangian [1] 4.5 0.0 0.0 0.6 $iact [1] 1 4 2010/4/10 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> > Check out the quadprog package. > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:36 PM, li li <hannah....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, thanks for the reply. > > A will be a given matrix satisfying condition 1. I want to find the > > vector w that minimizes the > > quadratic form. w satisfies condition 2. > > > > > > 2010/4/10 Paul Smith <phh...@gmail.com> > > > >> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Paul Smith <phh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I am trying to minimize the quardratic form w'Aw, with certain > >> >> constraints. > >> >> In particular, > >> >> (1) A=(a_{ij}) is n by n matrix and it is symmetric positive > >> definite, > >> >> a_{ii}=1 for all i; > >> >> and 0<a_{ij}<1 for i not equal j. > >> >> (2) w'1=n; > >> >> (3) w_{i}>=0 > >> >> > >> >> Analytically, for n=2, it is easy to come up with a result. For > larger > >> n, it > >> >> seems > >> >> difficult to obtain the result. > >> >> > >> >> Does any one know whether it is possible to use R to numerically > compute > >> it? > >> > > >> > And your decision variables are? Both w[i] and a[i,j] ? > >> > >> In addition, what do you mean by "larger n"? n = 20 is already large > >> (in your sense)? > >> > >> Paul > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > <http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >> > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.