options_file
File containing advanced QUESO options
Specification
Alias: None
Arguments: STRING
Default: no advanced options file
Description
Allow power users to override default QUESO 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:
QUESO library defaults
Dakota hard-coded defaults
Settings from Dakota input file
Settings from the advaned
options_file