[jira] [Commented] (MATH-798) PolynomialFitter.fit() stalls

["Gilles (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Gilles commented on MATH-798:
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Your use-case had already been included in the unit test suite (albeit in the "CurveFitterTest" class because I initially wanted to remove the "PolynomialFitter" class).

MATH-799 discusses that the problem you reported here happens because the default tolerances were much too small. This has been solved (cf. unit test method "testMath798" in "CurveFitterTest").

However, since the mistake of setting the tolerances at too low values could still happen, I'm going to add a new (overridden) method in "PolynomialFitter", where you can explicitly set the number of allowed evaluations of the polynomial during the fit process. This will make it fail early instead of running "forever" (not really: the default number of evaluation is "Integer.MAX_VALUE").

                
> PolynomialFitter.fit() stalls
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>
>                 Key: MATH-798
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-798
>             Project: Commons Math
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 3.0
>         Environment: Mac OS 10.6 and Win XP
>            Reporter: Kurt Pernstich
>         Attachments: PolynomialFitterTest.java
>
>
> Hi, in certain cases I ran into the problem that the PolynomialFitter.fit() method stalls, meaning that it does not return, nor throw an Exception (even if it runs for 90 min). Is there a way to tell the PolynomialFitter to iterate only N-times to ensure that my program does not stall?

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