How to improve the acceptance rate of "mBirthDeath"?

[ZheCai]

Hi all,

When running eems on my data, the acceptance rate of "mBirthDeath" is always lower than 10%. Which parameters I should tune to improve the acceptance rate?

Thanks!

The end of the output:

Ending iteration 20000000 with acceptance proportions:
(463182/1249153) = 37.08% for proposal type "qTileRate", with proposal variance "qEffctProposalS2"
(418360/1251545) = 33.43% for proposal type "qTileMove", with proposal variance "qSeedsProposalS2"
(284344/1251259) = 22.72% for proposal type "qBirthDeath"
(1543607/3749139) = 41.17% for proposal type "mTileRate", with proposal variance "mEffctProposalS2"
(655820/2500832) = 26.22% for proposal type "mMeanRate", with proposal variance "mrateMuProposalS2"
(1325567/3748755) = 35.36% for proposal type "mTileMove", with proposal variance "mSeedsProposalS2"
(310662/3748524) = 8.29% for proposal type "mBirthDeath"
(1188935/2500793) = 47.54% for proposal type "degrees of freedom"
and effective degrees of freedom = 9562.16
number of qVoronoi tiles = 61
number of mVoronoi tiles = 134
Log prior = 49.15
Log llike = 1148073.79
Final log prior: 49.15
Final log llike: 1148073.79