HI,
I am running E-surge for the first time and I keep running into an error. I am using the MARK input format. Although my data set is processed fine in U-Care, E-surge seems to have a problem with my data set. The data dialogue in the main E-surge window shows I have 7 events when really my data has 6 events. I have used the gui dialogue to change this but E-surge will not accept the change. Then, when I run the model it the computation process dies complaining "Error using set Values must be monotonically increasing." It then gives me an astronomical AIC.
So far I have double checked my GPAT matrices very carefully, and tried using a very simple GEMACO input. These don't appear to be the problem. I have searched my data for the number 7, which should not show up, and it does not show up. Finally, I have run a simpler version of the same data set (few states), and produced the expected result: a reasonable AIC and the full ouput--which is to say it runs fine.
One last consideration is that this model is supposed to take experience into account so the numbers 2 and 3 will appear in each history only once, if at all. Could this be causing a problem?
Thank you
Luke