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:

  1. QUESO library defaults

  2. Dakota hard-coded defaults

  3. Settings from Dakota input file

  4. Settings from the advaned options_file