#249: bug in dynare_estimation_1.m or documentation ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Reporter: houtanb | Owner: Type: bug | Status: closed Priority: major | Milestone: 4.3 Component: General | Version: 4.2.5 Resolution: fixed | Keywords: ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Changes (by michel):

* status: new => closed * resolution: => fixed

Comment:

documentation has been clarified in commit 0fc0a0e6f0a2b040f312c71a14447c7668e93f3e mode_compute=0 with mode_file reports the value of the log posterior evaluated at the initial value of parameters

#249: bug in dynare_estimation_1.m or documentation ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Reporter: houtanb | Owner: Type: bug | Status: reopened Priority: major | Milestone: 4.3 Component: General | Version: 4.2.5 Resolution: | Keywords: ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Changes (by houtanb):

* status: closed => reopened * resolution: fixed =>

Comment:

From the forum: http://www.dynare.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3709

I don't think that it is just a bug in the documentation. If you give the arguments mode_compute = 0 and mode_file = filename you cannot get smoothed shocks in some cases because of the faulty conditional statement I referenced earlier. The problematic bug is in the .m file. Currently I have to have a local version of the m file in order to get the smoothed shocks. While I appreciate you updating the documentation, I think that the more serious problem is in the file itself. The code after the line I referenced never can be executed with mode_compute = 0 and a mode_file. This is a problem because you don't want to have to recompute the mode just to get the smoothed shocks/variables. Even if I start at the mode, that process can take up to an hour on moderately large models. If you could please change the dynare_estimation_1.m file I would appreciate it.