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Number of optimization restarts for L-BFGS-B


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**Specification**

- *Alias:* None

- *Arguments:* INTEGER


**Description**


Number of optimization runs at random initial guesses for maximum likelihood estimation.
Multiple restarts are used to increase the chance of finding the global minimum with
a gradient-based (i.e. local) optimization method.

*Default Behavior*
Default value of 20 restarts.


