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MC3: Multi-core Markov-chain Monte Carlo code
Cubillos, Patricio;
Harrington, Joseph;
Lust, Nate;
Foster, AJ;
Stemm, Madison;
Loredo, Tom;
Stevenson, Kevin;
Campo, Chris;
Hardin, Matt;
Hardy, Ryan
MC3 (Multi-core Markov-chain Monte Carlo) is a Bayesian statistics tool that can be executed from the shell prompt or interactively through the Python interpreter with single- or multiple-CPU parallel computing. It offers Markov-chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) posterior-distribution sampling for several algorithms, Levenberg-Marquardt least-squares optimization, and uniform non-informative, Jeffreys non-informative, or Gaussian-informative priors. MC3 can share the same value among multiple parameters and fix the value of parameters to constant values, and offers Gelman-Rubin convergence testing and correlated-noise estimation with time-averaging or wavelet-based likelihood estimation methods.
- Code site:
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https://github.com/pcubillos/mc3
- Described in:
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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017AJ....153....3C
- Bibcode:
- 2016ascl.soft10013C