SIMANN SA CODE
Developed by William Goffe, Univ. of S. Mississipi, 1990
Algorithm by Corana, Marchesi, Martini & Ridella, 1987
FORTRAN code available from author / Internet
Quandt’s GQOPT6 Statistical Optimization Package
Well tested for several statistical objective functions
Efficacy demonstrated in several exploratory studies
Independent of starting values
Requires tuning of parameters