Notes

prosecutor

  • Bit more writing on comment reply. Sent to Alex and Alan for feedback.

nonparametric-bayes

Demonstrating robustness of the GP approach is remarkably difficult ironically because the comparison methods are not particularly robust; most often due to poor initial conditions. Doing all I can to make the MLE and parametric Bayesian cases suitably automated such that the can give reasonable performance as I loop over various simulation parameters and models without much hand-holding of each of the estimators.

Also an automatic sensitivity analysis gets pretty computationally intensive and generates a lot of different outputs to keep track of, trying to improve this through cleaner code, parallelization, caching, chunk dependencies, and namespaces for scripts.

  • Playing with mcmc convergence over initial conditions
  • Running case without measurement error for parametric bayesian models
  • Adaptuing runs for parallel and for execution on farm cluster
  • Consider ADMB for the MLE estimate to be a bit more robust for automated cases.

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