A lot of divergent transitions but the estimates still closely match my true generating parameters?

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Are outputs with divergent transitions not at all useful?

Hi all, I did a simulation to test a model’s performance. In the simulation, I predetermined the “true” value for all parameters and simulated the data collection process with observation errors being imposed. I then used the simulated data to fit the model to estimate the parameters and compared the estimates with the predetermined “true” values. The accuracy and precision of the parameter estimates were acceptable (pretty close to the “true” values). However, there were large numbers of diver…