If you’re not terribly concerned about speed, I would try to understand a bit of optimization in general instead of linear programming (which is a special case).
I’m not sure what the best way is; I do recommend playing around in excel. Excel has some pretty decent optimization functionality built in (not hard to use either) and it’s quite visual. The wikipedia page is a good start, you probably just need to know how to use some tools and some idea about how they work.
The two most traditional approaches to optimization are approximating the function of interest locally as 1) a hyper-plane 2) a quadratic function.
If you’re not terribly concerned about speed, I would try to understand a bit of optimization in general instead of linear programming (which is a special case).
I should probably do that sometime in my life, if not for this.
Any suggestions for how? Would the wikipedia page be enough?
I’m not sure what the best way is; I do recommend playing around in excel. Excel has some pretty decent optimization functionality built in (not hard to use either) and it’s quite visual. The wikipedia page is a good start, you probably just need to know how to use some tools and some idea about how they work.
The two most traditional approaches to optimization are approximating the function of interest locally as 1) a hyper-plane 2) a quadratic function.
Huh, interesting.
Thanks for the advice.