joshspeagle/dynesty: v2.1.0

Koposov, Sergey; Speagle, Josh; Barbary, Kyle; Ashton, Gregory; Bennett, Ed; Buchner, Johannes; Scheffler, Carl; Cook, Ben; Talbot, Colm; Guillochon, James; Cubillos, Patricio; Asensio Ramos, Andrés; Johnson, Ben; Lang, Dustin; Ilya; Dartiailh, Matthieu; Nitz, Alex; McCluskey, Andrew; Archibald, Anne; Deil, Christoph; Foreman-Mackey, Dan; Goldstein, Danny; Tollerud, Erik; Leja, Joel; Kirk, Matthew; Pitkin, Matt; Sheehan, Patrick; Cargile, Phillip; Patel, Ruskin; Angus, Ruth
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2023
Number of authors
30
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
6
Refereed citations
5
Description
This a major release with a significant change of the sampler. It is now able to correctly sample likelihood functions with plateaus, (i.e likelihood functions with areas where likelihood value is exactly the same). The previous behaviour also led to inaccurate log(Z) estimates if some fraction of the prior volume had log(P)=-LARGENUMBER