Welcome to pymultinest’s documentation!

About

This is the documentation for two python modules for Bayesian analysis, parameter estimation and model selection: pymultinest and pycuba.

• PyMultiNest interacts with MultiNest, a Nested Sampling Monte Carlo library.

• PyCuba interacts with cuba, a library for various numerical integration methods.

Get PyMultiNest

• Follow the instructions in the installation guide.

• You can download the source code from the GitHub code repository.

Citing PyMultiNest

Please cite MultiNest <pymultinest> and Cuba <pycuba> accordingly, depending on which algorithm you connect your Python program to using this package.

If you find PyMultiNest enables your research, please consider citing my publication to give back for the time I invested:

Buchner et al. 2014, A&A (get BibTex)

In this paper, I introduce the software package officially, and apply the methodology of applying MultiNest to X-ray spectral analysis.

Documentation:

• Installing PyMultiNest and PyCuba
  • 1. Installing the Python Module
  • 2. Prerequisites for building the libraries
  • 2. Building the libraries
  • 3. Running some code
  • Getting help
  • Generating the documentation
• PyMultiNest
  • Running the sampler
  • Analysing the output
  • Watching the progress
  • Demo program for PyMultiNest
  • Tutorial
  • Citing PyMultiNest
  • Using PyMultiNest with MPI
• PyCuba
  • PyCuba Demo Program
  • PyCuba API
  • API documentation

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page