Re: Problem with PSN4. 9 - COVARIANCE STEP ABORTED
Dear Jakob,
1. Did you run both PsN versions using the same nonmem version? *Yes*
2. If termination was not successful, was PsN (execute) set up to try
again with another set of initial estimates *[Yes, tried with different
IEs, Fixed few, all combinations]*, and if it was: did you use the same
seed when running execute-4.8 and execute-4.9? *Yes*
3. ’sdiff -s’ to compare this file between the two runs with execute-
*Yes*
4. Did you change anything else in the configuration of PsN or NONMEM,
e.g. the compiler? *Computing system is located in Linux server, I dont
think if IT makes any changes to it without informing us, but I will check
with them. *
Thank you so much for your time and input.
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On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 8:58 AM Jakob Ribbing <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Dear Shankar,
>
> I think you will need to go deeper into the configuration and settings, as
> well as to the directories where NONMEM was actually run, to answer this
> question.
>
> Here are some things that you can consider:
>
> - Did you run both PsN versions using the same nonmem version?
> - If termination was not successful, was PsN (execute) set up to try
> again with another set of initial estimates, and if it was: did you use the
> same seed when running execute-4.8 and execute-4.9?
> - The control streams created by PsN (located in the NM_run1
> directory): are they identical? In this directory you will find e.g.
> psn.mod. If on a LINUX system you can just run diff or ’sdiff -s’ to
> compare this file between the two runs with execute
> - Did you change anything else in the configuration of PsN or NONMEM,
> e.g. the compiler?
>
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jakob
>
>
>
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> On 3 May 2021, at 18:45, Shankar Lanke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear NMUsers,
> I am having trouble with PSN4.9, if anyone has a similar issue may I know
> how to fix it?
> I ran a model that was developed prior to the release of PSN4.9. In PSN4.9
> the covariance step is aborted because S Matrix is unobtainable. I purged
> 4.9 and loaded 4.8, the model ran perfectly and matched the
> previous results. Thank you very much in advance.
>
>
> *Version 4.9*
> #TERE:
> Elapsed estimation time in seconds: 633.22
> 0S MATRIX UNOBTAINABLE
> 0COVARIANCE STEP ABORTED
> Elapsed covariance time in seconds: 47.98
> Elapsed postprocess time in seconds: 51.79
>
>
> *Version 4.8*
> #TERM:
> 0MINIMIZATION SUCCESSFUL
> NO. OF FUNCTION EVALUATIONS USED: 783
> NO. OF SIG. DIGITS IN FINAL EST.: 2.0
>
>
> Regards,
> Shankar Lanke
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