function [g, badg] = numgrad5(fcn,f0,x,penalty,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 © 1993-2007 Christopher Sims % Copyright © 2008-2016 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 . h = epsilon; n = length(x); g = zeros(n,1); H = 12*h; badg = 0; for i=1:n xiold = x(i); x(i) = xiold+h; f1 = penalty_objective_function(x, fcn, penalty, varargin{:}); x(i) = xiold-h; f2 = penalty_objective_function(x, fcn, penalty, varargin{:}); x(i) = xiold+2*h; f3 = penalty_objective_function(x, fcn, penalty, varargin{:}); x(i) = xiold-2*h; f4 = penalty_objective_function(x, fcn, penalty, varargin{:}); g0 = (8*(f1-f2)+f4-f3)/H; if abs(g0)< 1e15 g(i) = g0; else g(i) = 0; badg = 1; end x(i) = xiold; end