Hey all,
Sorry for all the questions of late...feeling like I am hitting a
brick wall after every turn.
So, my latest model run is producing the following warning:
Main recdev biasadj is >2 times ratio of rmse to sigmaR
This warning appears both before and after adjusting the years chosen
for bias adjustment and the maximum bias adjustment parameter
(adjusted using values from output of r4ss based on Methot and Taylor
2011). In my base run, sigmaR is fixed at 0.74. Out of curiosity, I
allowed the model to estimate sigmaR and the estimated value was
0.073, which suggests to me there may not be much recruitment
variability information in the data. When I do let the model estimate
sigmaR, I don't receive the warning shown above. Alternatively, with
the fixed sigmaR, I ran the model in a series of runs by decreasing
the maximum bias adjustment parameter until I no longer received the
warning and had to reduce down to 0.1 before the warning disappeared.
I would appreciate any recommendations on how to proceed. I was also
wondering if I should be adjusting the lambdas for the recruitment
deviations (I thought I saw that suggested somewhere)?
Thanks again for all your time and patience!
Cheers,
Laura