strange crashes in evaluating priors

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strange crashes in evaluating priors

Postby lombard » Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:21 am

Hi,

I've got this error message

Error in computing likelihood for initial parameter values
??? Error using ==> print_info
This case shouldn't happen. Contact the authors of Dynare

Error in ==> initial_estimation_checks at 87
print_info(info)

Error in ==> dynare_estimation at 302
initial_estimation_checks(xparam1,gend,data);

Error in ==> nawm_fin_linear at 1446
dynare_estimation(var_list_);

Error in ==> dynare at 102
evalin('base',fname) ;


Here I'm using Dynare 4.0.2 on Windows. The error is triggered by changing the prior for some parameters from

Code: Select all
xi_W1   ,   0.765   ,   BETA_PDF,   0.75   ,   0.05;


to

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xi_W1   ,   0.765   ,   BETA_PDF,   0.5   ,   0.1;


(and similarly for other parameters, i.e. same change of mean and variance but different initial value, though always btw 0 and 1).

When I changed to mean=0.6 and variance=0.1^2, the error was about initial values being outside ranges.

Any reason for this behaviour?

Thanks and regards

Gianni
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