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For a project I'm working on, I'm looking for a model that when put to the data has both local minima, of course, a global minimum.  The model is not what interests me, I'm going to apply a machine learning idea I've had, so the simpler the model the better.   But having non-trivial and difficult to find global minimum is the most important point (although obviously, you don't have to actually know what that is).

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Not sure if this is what you want. Check out https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304407613000419.
The model is very simple: data(tau)=(1-a*(1-cos(omega*tau)))/(1+b*tau^c) where a,b,c,omega are parameters.
But the likelihood surface is very bumpy thanks to the cos function.
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perfect!  I will use.  Thanks.
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