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Dear Harry,
minimization with global (stochastic) algorithms is like this. You don't
always get the same result even if starting from the same initial
position. If you are getting very different results on each run, then
that is an indication that you did not run the algorithm long enough. In
particle swarm you can change this with the parameter "Iteration Limit".
This is not specific to BasiCO, it is the same thing in the GUI. It is
the same thing with any software that runs one of this type of
optimizers too.
By the way, paramater estimation (and optimization) is a task that is
much better used in an interactive/exploratory way, which is much easier
to do on a GUI than programmatically... I personally would not expect to
solve a parameter estimation problem on the first trial run, I would run
several times, adjusting settings between them, and trying several
algorithms. In the end, it is not the average of several runs that you
want, you actually want the one that gave you the lowest value of the
objective function.
Hope this helps
Pedro
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