fminsearch using multiple non-variable parameters

I am trying to optimize several variables e.g. relative source-receiver positions, etc. The optimization is using a large data set of time signatures. Since reading in the signature takes almost 1 minute, it is not realistic to read the files in within the function to be optimized.

Beside the large dataset I require some additional non-variable parameters to pass on that required for the calcuations.

The help file fminsearch is not clear how I can do this!

Basically I want to optimize:

myfun(receiver_pos_vec,source_pos_vec,large_data_set,frequency_vec,data_set_size)

in which only the first two are variables to be optimized.

Answer 1

[Matt J]

See this page. Global variables are not the preferred solution. Either anonymous or nested functions is what you want.