From 98b9db13a1aeb31ffa63f5e3006ab81edcf504da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?St=C3=A9phane=20Adjemian=20=28Charybdis=29?= Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:12:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Prevent inconsistent specification in estim_params-block. Manually cherry-picked from 2ba9a8e10b9b62c2588420f2f7a244fe64b47289. --- src/source/the-model-file.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/source/the-model-file.rst b/src/source/the-model-file.rst index 8bd9599fc..43e6d8a45 100644 --- a/src/source/the-model-file.rst +++ b/src/source/the-model-file.rst @@ -4030,6 +4030,14 @@ block decomposition of the model (see :opt:`block`). empty, in which Dynare will select a default value depending on the context and the prior shape. + In case of the uniform distribution, it can be specified either by + providing an upper and a lower bound using + :opt:`PRIOR_3RD_PARAMETER` and :opt:`PRIOR_4TH_PARAMETER` or via + mean and standard deviation using :opt:`PRIOR_MEAN`, + :opt:`PRIOR_STANDARD_ERROR`. The other two will automatically be + filled out. Note that providing both sets of hyperparameters will + yield an error message. + As one uses options more towards the end of the list, all previous options must be filled: for example, if you want to specify SCALE_PARAMETER, you must specify ``PRIOR_3RD_PARAMETER`` and