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Dear all,

When working in a console mode, I'm seeing Dynare (4.4.0) reporting Acceptance ratios, ratio and rate in a single session. Is there a fundamental difference between those three terms, or otherwise we might use just one of them?

gin

They are the same. Could you provide the output in question so that we can harmonize it?

Those words do not appear in the log-file (even with the `debug' option), but just in the Matlab's console as such (before I pressed `ctrl+C'):

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Loading 71 observations from ctwData8.m

Initial value of the log posterior (or likelihood): -6484.7307
Acceptance ratios: 0.280833 [0.316000]   3% done
Acceptance ratio: 0.377300 100% done

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   Change in the covariance matrix = 9.9999.
   Mode improvement = 3229.2936
   New value of jscale = 0.0039855
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Acceptance ratios: 0.490400 [0.310000]   3% done
Acceptance ratio: 0.296550 100% done

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   Change in the covariance matrix = 1.3393.
   Mode improvement = 39.6372
   New value of jscale = 0.074675
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Acceptance ratios: 0.362667 [0.328000]   2% done
Acceptance ratio: 0.337350 100% done
Acceptance rates: 0.372300 [0.343000]   5% done
1.000000 Jumps / MaxStepSize 0.051014  35% done

The estimation command is the following:

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options_.console_mode=1; %(default: 0)
estimation(order=1,datafile=ctwData8, mh_replic=900000, mh_nblocks=1, mh_drop=.3,  mh_jscale=0.2,
 mode_compute=6, filter_step_ahead = [1 4 8 12], forecast=20,smoother, filtered_vars, diffuse_filter,
nodisplay, moments_varendo, conditional_variance_decomposition=[1 4 8 20],
graph_format=(eps,pdf));

gin

Thanks for pointing this out. I will harmonize it.