CosmoMC: action = 2 vs action = 4
Posted: October 28 2016
Hi everybody. I have run CosmoMC setting action = 2 to find the best-fit point. The minimum output file lists, besides the best fit values of all the parameters, the information about the total chi-sq and the chi-sq for every data set I used:
Then I fixed the central values of the parameters in the ini file to the best fit values quoted in the minimum file and now use action = 4 to calculate the likelihood for this particular choice. I suppose the results of the chi-sq should be very similar. However, I get:
As can be seen, the results for CMB-lowl, SNe and BAO are very similar, but the results for CMB-highl are very different. Does anybody knows what's going on?
Regards
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7.527 15.053 CMB: lowl = commander_rc2_v1.1_l2_29_B
380.793 761.585 CMB: plik = plik_dx11dr2_HM_v18_TT
347.808 695.616 SN: JLA December_2013
0.008 0.016 BAO: 6DF
0.704 1.407 BAO: MGS
1.102 2.204 BAO: DR11CMASS
0.155 0.310 BAO: DR11LOWZ
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loglike chi-sq
7.550 15.100 CMB: lowl = commander_rc2_v1.1_l2_29_B
451.099 902.198 CMB: plik = plik_dx11dr2_HM_v18_TT
347.818 695.636 SN: JLA December_2013
0.008 0.016 BAO: 6DF
0.704 1.407 BAO: MGS
1.102 2.204 BAO: DR11CMASS
0.155 0.310 BAO: DR11LOWZ
Regards