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Curve fit for piecewise - Lazy evaluation (Defer / Hold?) on constraint passed to Minimize[]?

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Is there to defer / hold evaluation for a constraint passed to Minimize[]?

I'm wondering because I want to ensure that a particular point on the curve fits as closely as possible to the given data, i.e., give it more weight at that point.

Example: (sorry for some of the hackish things, coming to Mathematica from another system)
param = {x0, a, b, c, ...};
xflat = ...
yflat = ...
x0index := Position[xflat, Nearest[xflat, x0][[1]]][[1]];
y0 := yflat[[x0index]][[1]] &;
funcs = {{f[x], x < x0}, {g[x], x >= x0}};
model = Piecewise[funcs];
constraint := y0 == funcs[[1,1]] == funcs[[2,1]] /. x->x0;
(*Not sure how to do lazy*)
results = Minimize[{model, constraint}, param];

This code works without involving the y0 expression. Once that's involved, I get the error:
NMinimize::bcons: The following constraints are not valid: ... Constraints should be equalities, inequalities, or domain specifications involving the variables.

I've tried apply Defer[] and Hold[] just for kicks and giggles, but it didn't work.

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Curve fit for piecewise - Lazy evaluation (Defer / Hold?) on constraint passed to Minimize[]? Eric Cousineau <eacousineau@gmail.com> - 2011-06-04 10:21 +0000

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