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[CosmoMC] How does it do action = 2?

Posted: October 21 2017
by Mason Ng
How does CosmoMC find the best-fit values for the cosmological parameters? I understand that this can be done with 'action = 2', but what actually happens inside? I was looking for corresponding code to "action_maxlike=2" in source/GeneralSetup.f90 but I couldn't find anything. I'm also trying to look for error estimates to those best-fit values.

Please advise, thanks.

Re: [CosmoMC] How does it do action = 2?

Posted: October 21 2017
by Antony Lewis
See minimize.f90 - uses algorithm called BOBYQA,