/** change the parameter and return the hastings ratio. */
  public final double doOperation() {

    int index = MathUtils.nextInt(links.getDimension());

    int oldGroup = (int) assignments.getParameterValue(index);

    /*
     * Set index customer link to index and all connected to it to a new assignment (min value empty)
     */
    int minEmp = minEmpty(modelLikelihood.getLogLikelihoodsVector());
    links.setParameterValue(index, index);
    int[] visited = connected(index, links);

    int ii = 0;
    while (visited[ii] != 0) {
      assignments.setParameterValue(visited[ii] - 1, minEmp);
      ii++;
    }

    /*
     * Adjust likvector for group separated
     */

    modelLikelihood.setLogLikelihoodsVector(oldGroup, getLogLikGroup(oldGroup));

    modelLikelihood.setLogLikelihoodsVector(minEmp, getLogLikGroup(minEmp));

    int maxFull = maxFull(modelLikelihood.getLogLikelihoodsVector());

    double[] liks = modelLikelihood.getLogLikelihoodsVector();
    /*
     * computing likelihoods of joint groups
     */

    double[] crossedLiks = new double[maxFull + 1];

    for (int ll = 0; ll < maxFull + 1; ll++) {
      if (ll != minEmp) {
        crossedLiks[ll] = getLogLik2Group(ll, minEmp);
      }
    }

    /*
     * Add logPrior
     */
    double[] logP = new double[links.getDimension()];

    for (int jj = 0; jj < links.getDimension(); jj++) {
      logP[jj] += depMatrix[index][jj];

      int n = (int) assignments.getParameterValue(jj);
      if (n != minEmp) {
        logP[jj] += crossedLiks[n] - liks[n] - liks[minEmp];
      }
    }

    logP[index] = Math.log(chiParameter.getParameterValue(0));

    /*
     * possibilidade de mandar p zero as probs muito pequenas
     */

    /*
     *  Gibbs sampling
     */

    this.rescale(logP); // Improve numerical stability
    this.exp(logP); // Transform back to probability-scale

    int k = MathUtils.randomChoicePDF(logP);

    links.setParameterValue(index, k);

    int newGroup = (int) assignments.getParameterValue(k);
    ii = 0;
    while (visited[ii] != 0) {
      assignments.setParameterValue(visited[ii] - 1, newGroup);
      ii++;
    }

    /*
     * updating conditional likelihood vector
     */
    modelLikelihood.setLogLikelihoodsVector(newGroup, getLogLikGroup(newGroup));
    if (newGroup != minEmp) {
      modelLikelihood.setLogLikelihoodsVector(minEmp, 0);
    }

    sampleMeans(maxFull);

    return 0.0;
  }