From 79128ea9f6bb8afba131b9dc91fe5f56cef65c08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Pfeifer <jpfeifer@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:09:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Manual: update documentation of optional Matlab toolboxes --- doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst b/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst index 7a1a5aa1d6..d843b606d8 100644 --- a/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst +++ b/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst @@ -23,8 +23,16 @@ In order to run Dynare, you need one of the following: The following optional extensions are also useful to benefit from extra features, but are in no way required: -* If under MATLAB: the Optimization Toolbox, the Statistics Toolbox, - the Control System Toolbox; +* If under MATLAB: the + * Optimization Toolbox (providing various optimizers + like ``fminsearch``, ``fmincon``, or ``fminunc``, used in e.g. ``mode_compute``, + ``opt_algo`` or ``ALGO``), + * Statistics Toolbox (for faster and sometimes more robust implementations of + statistical distributions), + * Global Optimization Toolbox (for ``particleswarm`` and ``simulannealbnd``, used in + e.g. ``mode_compute``, ``opt_algo`` or ``ALGO``) + * Control System Toolbox (for the Lyapunov solver ``dlyapchol`` triggered with ``options_.lyapunov_srs``) + * Parallel Computing Toolbox (to speed up the ``dime`` sampler) * If under Octave, the following `Octave-Forge`_ packages: ``optim``, ``io``, ``control``. -- GitLab