Analysis settings

Samples are analysed using various analysis settings. These can be specified from a .ini file or overridden using a dictionary.

Default settings from analysis_defaults.ini:

#For discarding burn-in if using raw chains
#if < 1 interpreted as a fraction of the total number of rows (0.3 ignores first 30% of lines)
#(ignored when parameter grid or chain .properties.ini settings are explicitly set)
ignore_rows = 0

#Minimum-weight sample to keep, as ratio to the maximum weight sample.
#This avoids very wide ranges of parameters (much wider than the posterior), e.g. when using nested sampling
min_weight_ratio =  1e-30

#Confidence limits for marginalized constraints.
#Also used for 2D plots, but only number set by plot settings actually shown
contours = 0.68 0.95 0.99

#If the distribution is skewed, so two probability of tails differs by more
#than credible_interval_threshold of the peak value, use equal-probability limits
#rather than integrating inwards equally at both tails.
#Note credible interval depends on density estimation parameters
credible_interval_threshold = 0.05

#Determine bounds from projected ND confidence range for contours[ND_contour_range]
#If -1 use bounds determined entirely from 1D marginalized densities
#Use 0 or 1 if 2D plot contours are hitting edges
range_ND_contour = -1

#1D marginalized confidence limit to use to determine parameter ranges
range_confidence = 0.001

#Confidence limit to use for convergence tests (splits and Raftery Lewis)
converge_test_limit = 0.95

#Sample binning for 1D plots
fine_bins = 1024

#if -1: set optimized smoothing bandwidth automatically for each parameter
#if >= 1: smooth by smooth_scale_1D bin widths
#if > 0  and <1: smooth by Gaussian of smooth_scale_1D standard deviations in each parameter
#                (around 0.2-0.5 is often good)
#if < 0: automatic, with the overall smoothing length scaled by abs(smooth_scale_1D) from default
smooth_scale_1D =-1

#0 is basic normalization correction
#1 is linear boundary kernel (should get gradient correct)
#2 is a higher order kernel, that also affects estimates way from the boundary (1D only)
boundary_correction_order=1

#Correct for (over-smoothing) biases using multiplicative bias correction
#i.e. by iterating estimates using the re-weighted 'flattened' bins
#Note that automatic bandwidth accounts for this by increasing the smoothing scale
#as mult_bias_correction_order increases (may not converge for large values).
mult_bias_correction_order = 1

#if -1: automatic optimized bandwidth matrix selection
#if >= 1: smooth by smooth_scale_2D bin widths
#if > 0  and <1: smooth by Gaussian of smooth_scale_2D standard deviations in each parameter
#                (around 0.3-0.7 is often good)
#if < 0: automatic, with the overall smoothing length scaled by abs(smooth_scale_2D) from default
smooth_scale_2D = -1

#maximum correlation ellipticity to allow for 2D kernels. Set to 0 to force non-elliptical.
max_corr_2D = 0.99

#sample binning in each direction for 2D plotting
fine_bins_2D = 256

#Whether to use 2D-specific rough estimate of the effective number of samples when estimating
#2D densities
use_effective_samples_2D = F

#maximum number of points for 3D plots
max_scatter_points = 2000

#output bins for 1D plotting (only for getdist output to files, or scale if smooth_scale_2D>1)
num_bins = 100

#output bins for 2D plotting (not used, just scale if smooth_scale_2D>1)
num_bins_2D=40

You can also change the default analysis settings file by setting the GETDIST_CONFIG environment variable to the location of a config.ini file, where config.ini contains a default_getdist_settings parameter set to the name of the ini file you want to use instead.