q4- how to compare without alpha_4

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Closed Jacob-Bishop closed 6 years ago

Jacob-Bishop commented 6 years ago

The original paper doesn't have an estimate for alpha_4. Should we just compare our theta vector with that entry removed to the original results?

jmbejara commented 6 years ago

The MLE result that I get is alpha_4 = 0.0 . So I just assumed that the missing entry meant that their alpha_4 is zero too.