APEMoST Documentation

This is the code documentation of APEMoST, the Automated Parameter Estimation and Model Selection Toolkit.

You can find more information about it in its documentation.

Compile-time parameters

Instead of adjusting parameters in files (which would cause a lot of unnecessary versions), you should pass the parameters to the compiler. This includes decisions on which algorithm to use, as well as fine- tuning values like number of burn-in iterations.

Do it like this:
$ CCFLAGS="-DN_PARAMETERS=3 -DDEBUG" make simplesin.exe

The possible parameters and their values:

Fine-tuning the algorithm

• BETA_ALIGNMENT
• N_BETA
• BETA_0
• BURN_IN_ITERATIONS
• TARGET_ACCEPTANCE_RATE
• MAX_AR_DEVIATION
• ITER_LIMIT
• MUL
• N_SWAP
• N_PARAMETERS
• SKIP_CALIBRATE_ALLCHAINS
• PROPOSAL

Defining algorithm behaviour

• RANDOMSWAP
• ADAPT
• RWM

Running

• MAX_ITERATIONS
• DUMP_ALL_CHAINS
• PRINT_PROB_INTERVAL

Analyzing

• GNUPLOT_STYLE
• HISTOGRAMS_MINMAX

Others

• DEBUG
• VERBOSE
• SEGV
• NOASSERT
• WITHOUT_GARBAGE_COLLECTOR

Runtime parameters

At runtime, the program looks for the files PARAMS_FILENAME and DATA_FILENAME.

Really, read the manual.