emcee.ptsampler.PTPost Class Reference

Public Member Functions
def	__init__
def	__call__

Detailed Description

Wrapper for posterior used with the :class:`PTSampler` in emcee.

Definition at line 22 of file ptsampler.py.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

def emcee.ptsampler.PTPost.__init__	(		self,
			logl,
			logp,
			beta
	)

:param logl:
    Function returning natural log of the likelihood.

:param logp:
    Function returning natural log of the prior.

:param beta:
    Inverse temperature of this chain: ``lnpost = beta*logl + logp``.

Definition at line 28 of file ptsampler.py.

Member Function Documentation

def emcee.ptsampler.PTPost.__call__	(		self,
			x
	)

Returns ``lnpost(x)``, ``lnlike(x)`` (the second value will be
treated as a blob by emcee), where

.. math::

    \ln \pi(x) \equiv \beta \ln l(x) + \ln p(x)

:param x:
    The position in parameter space.

Definition at line 45 of file ptsampler.py.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• /build/workspace/gstlal/label/wheezy/gstlal-inspiral/python/emcee/ptsampler.py