[ADMB Users] profiling glitch: starting from MLE gives bad profile output

[Ben Bolker]

On 12-12-07 02:32 PM, dave fournier wrote:
> On 12-12-07 11:28 AM, Ben Bolker wrote:
>> On 12-12-07 02:21 PM, dave fournier wrote:
> It is one of those trivial cases.  If you add say -crit 1.e-7 to the
> command
> line the problem will go away.  More serious is why it is there. The
> gradient at the first function evaluation is already smaller than the
> default
> convergence value so it never gets into the minimization routine so the
> variable that hold the best log-likelihood value never gets set. That
> should be fixed.
> 

 thanks for the workaround.
> 
> 
>>> Yes.
>>> _____________________________________
>>    Does that mean "yes, I reproduced the problem on my system" ... ?
>>
>>    Looking back at my e-mail, I see that there were two explicit
>> questions:
>>
>> * Does anyone have any insight into the following problem?
>> * Is there anything I can do to fix it [return status "1" when
>> profiling] ?
>>
>>    Maybe you were answering one of those questions instead?
>>
>>   cheers
>>      Ben
>>
>>
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