Women are stereotyped as more risk averse than men. Empirical and experimental investigations seem to support the stereotype, yet they tackle different and often unrelated aspects. Reliable predictions on gender specific differences in risky choices are hardly possible since there is no common...

We consider iterative trust region algorithms for the unconstrained minimization of an objective function <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$F ( \underline{x})$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>, <InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$\underline{x}\in \mathcal{R}^{n}$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>, when F is differentiable but no derivatives are available, and when each model of F is a linear or a quadratic polynomial. The...</equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation>