I need help in interpreting the diagnostics I have printed out from a troublesome run of my model. As my model includes a large set of user-defined functions, I want to try to explain my problem without including all of the functions block, but if any of you very helpful people need to see it just …

Debugging Log probability evaluates to log(0), i.e. negative infinity

jgcolman June 4, 2020, 6:08pm 5

Thank you for the question. The knots are distinct by construction.

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