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Hyper parameters are not estimated #45

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richelbilderbeek opened this issue Jul 21, 2018 · 5 comments
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Hyper parameters are not estimated #45

richelbilderbeek opened this issue Jul 21, 2018 · 5 comments

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Feedback bjoelle:

the distribution hyper parameters (alpha, beta, mean etc - all except lambda) can be set with estimate = TRUE, but the xml will not be created correctly with those settings (missing distribution, operators and state sections). I think the code should not allow this setting until this functionality is fully implemented.

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bjoelle has a point there: this has been implemented and tested only partially. First step is (in the commit above) is to have a failing assert when the implementation is incomplete.

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On the other hand, it is partially implemented! Should I throw away the partial implementation, and rebuild it when needed, or keep it, but fail fast?

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Nah, bjoelle is right: I should remove the illusion of having hyper priors from the interface.

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But also here: sometimes the interface is complete...

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I've removed the estimate = FALSE option from the interface. The partially complete back-end I leave intact.

There are some parameters that are estimate = TRUE by default, for the GTR site model. I just leave these be.

I consider this done.

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