function [g, badg, f0, f1, f2, f3, f4] = numgrad5(fcn,f0,x,epsilon,varargin) % Computes the gradient of the objective function fcn using a five points % formula if possible. % % Adapted from Sims' numgrad.m routine. % % See section 25.3.6 Abramovitz and Stegun (1972, Tenth Printing, December) Handbook of Mathematical Functions. % http://www.math.sfu.ca/~cbm/aands/ % % TODO Try Four points formula when cost_flag3=0 or cost_flag4=0. % Original file downloaded from: % http://sims.princeton.edu/yftp/optimize/mfiles/numgrad.m % Copyright (C) 1993-2007 Christopher Sims % Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Dynare Team % % This file is part of Dynare. % % Dynare is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify % it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by % the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or % (at your option) any later version. % % Dynare is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, % but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of % MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the % GNU General Public License for more details. % % You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License % along with Dynare. If not, see . f1 = NaN; f2 = NaN; f3 = NaN; f4 = NaN; delta = epsilon; n=length(x); tvec=delta*eye(n); g=zeros(n,1); badg=0; goog=1; scale=1; for i=1:n if size(x,1)>size(x,2) tvecv=tvec(i,:); else tvecv=tvec(:,i); end [f1,junk1,junk2,cost_flag1] = feval(fcn, x+scale*transpose(tvecv), varargin{:}); [f2,junk1,junk2,cost_flag2] = feval(fcn, x-scale*transpose(tvecv), varargin{:}); if cost_flag1==0 || cost_flag2==0 cost_flag3 = 0; cost_flag4 = 0; disp('numgrad:: I cannot use the five points formula!!') else [f3,junk1,junk2,cost_flag3] = feval(fcn, x+2*scale*transpose(tvecv), varargin{:}); [f4,junk1,junk2,cost_flag4] = feval(fcn, x-2*scale*transpose(tvecv), varargin{:}); end if cost_flag1 && cost_flag2 && cost_flag3 && cost_flag4% Five Points formula g0 = (8*(f1 - f2)+ f4-f3) / (12*scale*delta); elseif cost_flag3==0 || cost_flag4==0 if cost_flag1 && cost_flag2% Three points formula g0 = (f1-f2)/(2*scale*delta); else if cost_flag1% Two points formula g0 = (f1-f0) / (scale*delta); elseif cost_flag2% Two points formula g0 = (f0-f2) / (scale*delta); else% Bad gradient! goog=0; end end end if goog && abs(g0)< 1e15 g(i)=g0; else disp('bad gradient ------------------------') g(i)=0; badg=1; end end