In recent years, methods for Bayesian inference have been widely used in many different problems in physics where detection and characterization are necessary. Data analysis in gravitational-wave astronomy is a prime example of such a case. Bayesian inference has been very successful because this technique provides a representation of the parameters as a posterior probability distribution, with uncertainties informed by the precision of the experimental measurements. During the last couple of decades, many specific advances have been proposed and employed in order to solve a large variety of different problems. In this work, we present a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm that integrates many of those concepts into a single MCMC package. For this purpose, we have built {\tt Eryn}, a user-friendly and multipurpose toolbox for Bayesian inference, which can be utilized for solving parameter estimation and model selection problems, ranging from simple inference questions, to those with large-scale model variation requiring trans-dimensional MCMC methods, like the LISA global fit problem. In this paper, we describe this sampler package and illustrate its capabilities on a variety of use cases.
翻译:近年来,贝叶斯推断方法在物理的许多不同问题中被广泛使用,因为需要检测和定性。引力波天文学数据分析是这种情况的一个典型例子。贝叶斯推断非常成功,因为这一技术提供了参数的外在概率分布,根据实验测量的精确性可以得出不确定性。在过去几十年中,为解决大量不同的问题,提出了许多具体的进步,并采用了这些进步。在这项工作中,我们提出了一个马克夫链蒙特卡洛(MMC)算法,将其中许多概念纳入一个单一的MCMC包。为此目的,我们为巴伊斯推断设计了一个方便用户和多功能的工具箱,可用于解决参数估计和模型选择问题,从简单的推断问题到需要跨维MC方法的大规模模型变异,如LISA全球适应问题。我们在此文件中描述了这个取样器包,并说明了其各种使用案例的能力。</s>