Okamoto, Masashi; Ihara, Masamori - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 1 (1983) 6, pp. 301-305
A new implementation of the Marquardt method for the nonlinear least-squares problem is presented. The algorithm is very simple but its performance with nine test functions is at least comparable with either Davidon-Fletcher-Powell's method or Moré's adaptive Marquardt method.