different BIC with same parameters

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different BIC with same parameters

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I run example with same parameters 3 times and I am getting different BICs. Initially, I wanted to try different number of clusters and based on minimum BIC, identify number of clusters and that was when I found out that every run with same parameters and dataset yielded different BICs. Could you please explain why BIC vary while parameters and data are the same.

Answer 1 · 2018-05-18T00:57:20.000Z

Hmm, that definitely shouldn’t be happening. Are you sure you’ve pulled the newest version of the code? This might have to do with issue #30 , where we used a different random seed every time we ran TICC. Can you try re-pulling and running again? Thanks!

Answer 2 · 2018-05-21T22:15:40.000Z

I used the new version and it is resolved. Thanks!

Answer 3 · 2018-05-21T23:03:05.000Z

Great, glad that fixed it!