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Improper log-sum of exponentials in log likelihood #1

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pblischak opened this issue Jan 20, 2017 · 0 comments
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Improper log-sum of exponentials in log likelihood #1

pblischak opened this issue Jan 20, 2017 · 0 comments
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The log likelihoods of the different models are computed using log sums of exponentials, which can have nasty overflow/underflow problems (cf. this link). I've run into this problem when read counts are high (on the order of ~1000x). Since sequencing coverage isn't typically this high, it hopefully should be an issue for most data sets. Nevertheless, I'll need to fix it.

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