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## January 27, 2016
## This function is used to determine whether the derivative of the
## polynomial is everywhere positive. in FMP models the derivative of the polynomial
## must be positive everywhere to insure monotonicity.
FMPMonotonicityCheck<-function(b, lower = -20, upper = 20){
if(length(b)!=8) stop("\n\nSerious Error: b should have 8 elements\n\n")
## b is an 8x1 vector of FMP polynomial coefficients
## b0, b1, . . . b7
DerivFMP <- function(theta,b) {
b[2] + 2*b[3]*theta + 3*b[4]*theta^2 + 4*b[5]*theta^3 + 5*b[6]*theta^4 +
6*b[7]*theta^5 + 7*b[8]*theta^6
}
xx<-optimize(f = DerivFMP, interval = c(lower,upper), b)
cat(paste("\nMinimum derivative of the polynomial in the interval (", lower, ",", upper,") = ",
xx$objective, sep=""))
if( is.na(xx$objective) ) stop("\n\n\nSerious optimization problems occured\n\n")
if(xx$objective < 0) cat("\nWarning: Polynomial fails the monotonicity check.\n")
minDeriv<-xx$minimum
invisible(minDeriv)
}
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