Using the latest SVN revision:

When using the "stat.child.0" syntax to add Statistics instances to
steady-state evolution, the method
SteadyStateEvolutionState.checkStatistics(), which is called from setup(),
assumes that the "base" Parameter passed in will have the
value P_STATISTICS.

In fact, the base Parameter used by SteadyStateEvolutionState.setup() is
null, so we get a NPE during initialization.

A simple fix is to replace "base" with "new Parameter(P_STATISTICS)" in the
call to checkStatistics on line 101.

Cheers,
Siggy

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George Mason University
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