Running this model with Pymc4 leads to an initialization error. It seems that large values from LogNormal overflow to infinity. If I change LogNormal to smaller values like ~1-5, then it works. Interestingly,running the same model with Stan works fine. Any idea why this is happening? Is this a over…

Initialization fails when using LogNormal

ricardoV94 April 9, 2022, 7:26am 7

np.exp(800.0)  # np.inf

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