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auxvar

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AUXVAR  Auxiliary variables for the parameter estimation schemes.
   MAXITER: The maximum number of iterations to be performed when search-
   ing for the minimum. Default is MAXITER=10. With MAXITER=0 only a non-
   iterative initial value estimation procedure is carried out.

   TOL: The iterations are continued until the candidate update vector
   has a norm less than TOL. Default is TOL=0.01. This norm is measured
   as the expected improvment of fit, expressed in percent.
   The iterations are also terminated when MAXITER is reached, or when
   the search procedure fails to find a lower value of the criterion
   along the candidate direction (first Gauss-Newton, then gradient).

   LIM: The criterion is robustified, so that a residual that is larger
   than LIM*(estimated standard deviation) carries a linear, rather than
   quadratic weight. Default is LIM=1.6. LIM=0 means that a non-
   robustified (truly quadratic) criterion is used.

   MAXSIZE: No matrix with more than MAXSIZE elements is formed by the
   algorithms. The default value is set by the .m-file idmsize. (On a
   PC the default value is MAXSIZE = 4096). If you run into
   memory problems try lower values of MAXSIZE. See also MEMORY.

   T: The sampling interval. Default is T=1. T is essential to obtain
   physical frequency scales, and when transforming to continuous time.

   Omitting trailing arguments or entering them as [] gives default.
   The output argument IT_INF contains information about the iterations
   when stopped:
   IT_INF=[last iter #,last fit improvement,norm of search vector]
   The norm is measured as explained under TOL above.

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function auxvar

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