Thank you so much, junpenglao. Your post not only helped with the main post but gave me invaluable tools for future problems I might have. Unfortunately I’m still getting infinite energies but perhaps that is just because, as you said, they’re hard to sample. I have some follow up questions if you don’t mind.
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How would you construct a more robust model for this hierarchal data? I was thinking perhaps a categorical probability?
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why did the original example not need normalization for the mixtures?
Thank you so much!