check_constraints checks that the constraints are correctly set
check_constraints(p, M, d, constraints = NULL)a positive integer specifying the autoregressive order of the model.
a positive integer specifying the number of mixture components.
number of time series in the system.
a size \((Mpd^2 x q)\) constraint matrix \(C\) specifying general linear constraints
to the autoregressive parameters. We consider constraints of form
(\(\phi\)\(_{1}\)\(,...,\)\(\phi\)\(_{M}) = \)\(C \psi\),
where \(\phi\)\(_{m}\)\( = (vec(A_{m,1}),...,vec(A_{m,p}) (pd^2 x 1), m=1,...,M\)
contains the coefficient matrices and \(\psi\) \((q x 1)\) contains the constrained parameters.
For example, to restrict the AR-parameters to be the same for all regimes, set \(C\)=
[I:...:I]' \((Mpd^2 x pd^2)\) where I = diag(p*d^2).
Ignore (or set to NULL) if linear constraints should not be employed.
Checks the constraint matrix C and throws an error if something is wrong.
If is.null(constraints), then this function doesn't do anything.