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What computational details should I check?

Make sure that the maximization procedure worked properly. For example, make sure that eiread's retcode is zero. Is the variance matrix from the normal approximation reasonable? Most importantly, check to make sure the simulations are coming from the mean posterior contours by comparing eigraph's tomogp to estsims (these are both in tomogS); verify that eigraph's post gives unimodal distributions. Was the importance sampling successful? Check to make sure that eiread's resamp is not much larger than 20 or so (it is not fatal if it is larger, but its worth checking).



Gary King 2006-09-13