moptimize_init_singularHmethod(M,singularHmethod) specifies the action to be taken during optimization if the Hessian is found to be singular and the technique requires the Hessian be of full rank. Allowed values are singularHmethod description -------------------------------------------------------- "m-marquardt" modified Marquardt algorithm "hybrid" mixture of steepest descent and Newton -------------------------------------------------------- The default is "m-marquardt". "hybrid" is equivalent to ml's difficult option; see [R] ml.