Welcome to BXA's documentation! ======================================= .. include:: ../README.rst Usage -------- * We start with some notes on :doc:`best practice ` in currently common Maximum Likelihood analysis (fitting) and Bayesian analysis. The usage is similar in Sherpa and Xspec conceptionally: * Define **priors** as transformations from the unit cube to the parameter space * :ref:`In Sherpa ` * :ref:`In Xspec ` * **Run** the analysis * :ref:`In Sherpa ` * :ref:`In Xspec ` * **Analyse** the results: Get marginal distributions and computed evidence for the model * :ref:`In Sherpa ` * :ref:`In Xspec ` * **Model comparison** * :ref:`In Sherpa ` * :ref:`In Xspec ` * **Experiment design** * :ref:`In Sherpa ` * :ref:`In Xspec ` * **Model discovery**: Quantile-Quantile (QQ) plots * :ref:`In Sherpa ` * :ref:`In Xspec ` .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 :caption: Documentation sherpa-analysis xspec-analysis contributing history modules .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 :caption: Learn more visualisations engine tutorials convenience background-models pca-background-models .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 :caption: Examples examples xagnfitter Indices and tables ================== * :ref:`genindex` * :ref:`modindex` * :ref:`search`