1 Numerical optimization methods in R 1.1 Root-finding in one dimension 1.1.1 Bisection method 1.1.2 Brent’s method 1.1.3 Newton’s method 1.1.4 Fisher scoring 1.2 multivariate optimization 1.2.1 Newton’s method and Fisher scoring 1.3 Numerical Integration 1.4 Maximum Likelihood Problems 1.5 Optimization Problems 1.5.1 One-dimension Optimization 1.5.2 multi-dimensional Optimization 1.6 Linear Programming