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# options_file

File containing advanced QUESO/GPMSA options

Specification

- Alias: None

- Arguments: STRING

- Default: no advanced options file

Description

Allow power users to override default QUESO/GPMSA options such as hyper-parameter priors, initial chain position, and proposal covariance (including hyper-parameters), which might not be accessible through Dakota user input.

Default Behavior No advanced options used.

Usage Tips The `options_file` offers a final override over other options settings, which are applied with the folowing precedence:

1. QUESO library defaults

2. Dakota hard-coded defaults

3. Settings from Dakota input file

4. Settings from the advaned `options_file`

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