[R] kernlab ipop solver value dual

[Ron Burns]

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me for what the kernlab ipop return value dual is? How 
does it relate to the solution for a Support Vector Machine solution?

I am trying to use the ipop solver in my (toy) example of a Support 
Vector Machine and I am noting that the bias (essentially the offset for 
the classification boundaries) that I calculate is the negative of this 
dual (within round off errors.) I am wondering is this true in general 
or perhaps just so for the simple examples that I considered so far. I 
can provide a detailed example of what I doing, but I am hoping that a 
SVM  expert will be able to respond to this.

Thanks for your consideration
	Ron

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R. R. Burns
Physicist (Retired)
Oceanside, CA