From 787cf31dea55e1221cfb33988e2e89426115bfb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gregory Ashton <gregory.ashton@ligo.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 09:46:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Clean up scatter_val explanation and usage
---
pyfstat.py | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pyfstat.py b/pyfstat.py
index d84d6ac..15417cf 100755
--- a/pyfstat.py
+++ b/pyfstat.py
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ class MCMCSearch(BaseSearchClass):
fig.savefig('{}/{}_init_{}_walkers.png'.format(
self.outdir, self.label, j))
- p0 = self.get_new_p0(sampler, scatter_val=self.scatter_val)
+ p0 = self.get_new_p0(sampler)
p0 = self.apply_corrections_to_p0(p0)
self.check_initial_points(p0)
sampler.reset()
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ class MCMCSearch(BaseSearchClass):
return p0
- def get_new_p0(self, sampler, scatter_val=1e-3):
+ def get_new_p0(self, sampler):
""" Returns new initial positions for walkers are burn0 stage
This returns new positions for all walkers by scattering points about
@@ -994,6 +994,10 @@ class MCMCGlitchSearch(MCMCSearch):
Either a dictionary of distribution about which to distribute the
initial walkers about, an array (from which the walkers will be
scattered by scatter_val, or None in which case the prior is used.
+ scatter_val, float or ndim array
+ Size of scatter to use about the initialisation step, if given as
+ an array it must be of length ndim and the order is given by
+ theta_keys
nglitch: int
The number of glitches to allow
tref, tstart, tend: int
--
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