Getting Started

This section is a quick introduction to the basic functionality of estimagic. It contains not only introductions to estimagic, but also very brief introductions to numerical optimization and differentiation.

• Installation
• First Optimization with estimagic
• Why optimization is difficult
• Which optimizer to use
• Visualizing an Optimization Problem
• Ordered Logit Example
• When (not) to use estimagic

estimagic Installation