The state represents the current point in the state space, and maintains values of a set of StateNodes, such as parameters and trees. Furthermore, the state manages which parts of the model need to be stored/restored and notified that recalculation is appropriate.
 
type: beast.core.StateNode*** |
anything that is part of the state |
Optional input |
 
type: java.lang.Integer |
store the state to disk every X number of samples so that we can resume computation later on if the process failed half-way. |
Optional input. Default: -1 |