COBRA Notification

• All announcements
• By author, series, or subject in COBRA
• By subject area in COBRA
• RSS Feed

Most Popular Papers

• View the most frequently downloaded papers

Institutions: Join COBRA

• Add your collection to COBRA

About COBRA

• COBRA
• About bepress

Basic properties of the soft maximum

• John D. Cook, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Download the Paper Forward to a colleague

Abstract:

This note presents the basic properties of the soft maximum, a smooth approximation to the maximum of two real variables. It concludes by looking at potential numerical difficulties with the soft maximum and how to avoid these difficulties.

Subject Area:

Computation

Suggested Citation:

John D. Cook, "Basic properties of the soft maximum" (September 2011). UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series. Working Paper 70.
http://www.bepress.com/mdandersonbiostat/paper70