2) fixed bug for the ML base (bayestopt_.pshape==0);
3) make more transparent the error when the model does not solve at prior_mode or prior_mean;
4) when prior_mean or prior_mode fail, try 50 times with randomly generated samples from the prior before interrupting identification.
This commit fixes issues related to fabiac forum request and subsequent discussion with Johannes.
http://www.dynare.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4402&p=10771&hilit=identification&sid=64c6f9d987a2641e79dd5722137eb483#p10771
1) allow to compute derivatives starting from NUMERICAL derivatives of jacobian and steady state: this has a minor cost in accuracy and allow apply without errors identification and estimation with numerical derivatives;
2) added trap in dynare_estimation_init: if steadystate changes param values, automaticly shifts to numerical derivs of jacoban and steady state + analytic derivatives of all the rest;
3) bug fixes for 2nd order derivatives w.r.t. model parameters;
-) never use normalization for SVD and brute force covariance checks;
-) Jacobians are normalized for checking the rank condition: this should allow for more uniformity in results across models.