Euclidean distances were used, and three sets of seeds were tested to minimize the impact of the starting values on the resulting clustering implemented using SAS [ 33].
For lme4 and MIXOR the choice of the starting values is not clear, while GLIMMIX and GLLAMM base their default starting values on the estimates from a generalized linear model fit.
With high start values on floor, where she is the reigning Olympic champion, and balance beam, where she is the Olympic bronze, Raisman held a slight mathematical edge over her team-mate.
Upon decompression, the variation of grain size of the samples (lower panel of Fig. 8) shows a similar but reversible trend as observed during compression, with the grain size reverting back to the starting values on fully releasing the pressure.
Since the algorithms are deterministic but depend on the starting values of the parameters, we used the same random "starting" profiles for every algorithm.
"With Ellie doing four pieces and Rio just next year it would take a hell of a lot of work for Ellie to get her start value on bars up high enough to be ready by then, but after Rio I see no reason why she couldn't be a top, top bars worker".
We solve the optimization problem for many starting values on a parallel computing cluster to mitigate this well-known problem.
Further decrease of concentration of loaded agents appears to be dependent on starting values and on the rate of fluid exchange.
For the bpow1 and pow1d parameters for which we did set initial values, we could have used the Sherpa guess function to estimate reasonable starting values, based on the data input to the Sherpa session.
We also specified a minimum number of iterations by using biterations = (10,000), we requested multiple chains of the Gibbs sampler by using chains = 8, and we requested starting values based on the ML estimates by using stvalues = ml.
