The Stan control argument adapt_delta
sets the target average acceptance
probability for the No-U-Turn Sampler (NUTS) used by Stan.
Details
The default value of adapt_delta
used by nma()
is 0.8 for fixed
effect models, and 0.95 for random effects models.
You should not need to change adapt_delta
unless you see a warning
message about divergent transitions. Increasing adapt_delta
from the
default to a value closer to 1 means that Stan will use a smaller step
size, making sampling slower but more robust, and resulting in fewer
divergent transitions.
For more details see the Stan documentation available from https://mc-stan.org/users/documentation/.