UltraNest - a robust, general purpose Bayesian inference engine
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چکیده
UltraNest is a general-purpose Bayesian inference package for parameter estimation and model comparison. It allows fitting arbitrary models specified as likelihood functions written in Python, C, C++, Fortran, Julia or R. With focus on correctness speed (in that order), especially useful multi-modal non-Gaussian spaces, computational expensive models, robust pipelines. Parallelisation to computing clusters resuming incomplete runs available.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of open source software
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2475-9066']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03001