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<span id="optimize-minimize-cobyla"></span><h1>minimize(method=’COBYLA’)<a class="headerlink" href="#minimize-method-cobyla" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<code class="descclassname">scipy.optimize.</code><code class="descname">minimize</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>fun</em>, <em>x0</em>, <em>args=()</em>, <em>method='COBYLA'</em>, <em>constraints=()</em>, <em>tol=None</em>, <em>callback=None</em>, <em>options={'rhobeg': 1.0</em>, <em>'maxiter': 1000</em>, <em>'disp': False</em>, <em>'catol': 0.0002}</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span></dt>
<dd><p>Minimize a scalar function of one or more variables using the
Constrained Optimization BY Linear Approximation (COBYLA) algorithm.</p>
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<p class="first admonition-title">See also</p>
<p class="last">For documentation for the rest of the parameters, see <a class="reference internal" href="generated/scipy.optimize.minimize.html#scipy.optimize.minimize" title="scipy.optimize.minimize"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">scipy.optimize.minimize</span></code></a></p>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Options:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><strong>rhobeg</strong> : float</p>
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<div><p>Reasonable initial changes to the variables.</p>
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<p><strong>tol</strong> : float</p>
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<div><p>Final accuracy in the optimization (not precisely guaranteed).
This is a lower bound on the size of the trust region.</p>
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<p><strong>disp</strong> : bool</p>
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<div><p>Set to True to print convergence messages. If False,
<em class="xref py py-obj">verbosity</em> is ignored as set to 0.</p>
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<p><strong>maxiter</strong> : int</p>
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<div><p>Maximum number of function evaluations.</p>
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<p><strong>catol</strong> : float</p>
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<div><p>Tolerance (absolute) for constraint violations</p>
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