Describe the bug
Anyone else having issues with fitting a Richards growth curve in Version 3.30.25? For me it throws a NaN when attempting to fit a Richards growth curve. It will fit the Von Bert fine and when the Richards parameter is fixed at 1.0 will converge on the same values as the Von Bert. However, when attempting to fit the Richards parameter the model becomes very unstable either settling at a local minima or NaNing out. This same model runs fine in all previous Stock Synthesis versions. Fixing the other growth parameters allow the model to fit a Richards parameter value, but the results are highly unstable and often settle at some local minimum that is not the MLE.
To Reproduce
Attempt to fit a Richards Growth Curve in Stock Synthesis V3.30.25 with an uniformed prior on the Richards parameter. For the EBS Pacific cod model, Stock Synthesis files can be found here: https://afsc-assessments.github.io/EBS_PCOD/2024_ASSESSMENT/NOVEMBER_MODELS/APPENDICES/APPENDIX_2.3_2024_MODELS.zip
Expected behavior
The model should converge on values similar to where it converged in prior versions of Stock Synthesis with an improved fit over the Von Bertalanffy.
Screenshots
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Which OS are you seeing the problem on?
Windows
Which version of SS3 are you seeing the problem on?
V3.30.25
Additional Context
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Describe the bug
Anyone else having issues with fitting a Richards growth curve in Version 3.30.25? For me it throws a NaN when attempting to fit a Richards growth curve. It will fit the Von Bert fine and when the Richards parameter is fixed at 1.0 will converge on the same values as the Von Bert. However, when attempting to fit the Richards parameter the model becomes very unstable either settling at a local minima or NaNing out. This same model runs fine in all previous Stock Synthesis versions. Fixing the other growth parameters allow the model to fit a Richards parameter value, but the results are highly unstable and often settle at some local minimum that is not the MLE.
To Reproduce
Attempt to fit a Richards Growth Curve in Stock Synthesis V3.30.25 with an uniformed prior on the Richards parameter. For the EBS Pacific cod model, Stock Synthesis files can be found here: https://afsc-assessments.github.io/EBS_PCOD/2024_ASSESSMENT/NOVEMBER_MODELS/APPENDICES/APPENDIX_2.3_2024_MODELS.zip
Expected behavior
The model should converge on values similar to where it converged in prior versions of Stock Synthesis with an improved fit over the Von Bertalanffy.
Screenshots
No response
Which OS are you seeing the problem on?
Windows
Which version of SS3 are you seeing the problem on?
V3.30.25
Additional Context
No response