Utility Functions

Function Reference

qinfer.utils.binomial_pdf(N, n, p)

Returns the PDF of the binomial distribution $\operatorname{Bin}(N, p)$ evaluated at $n$.

qinfer.utils.outer_product(vec)

Returns the outer product of a vector $v$ with itself, $v v^\T$.

qinfer.utils.particle_meanfn(weights, locations, fn=None)

Returns the mean of a function $f$ over model parameters.

Parameters:

• weights (numpy.ndarray) – Weights of each particle.
• locations (numpy.ndarray) – Locations of each particle.
• fn (callable) – Function of model parameters to take the mean of. If None, the identity function is assumed.

qinfer.utils.particle_covariance_mtx(weights, locations)

Returns an estimate of the covariance of a distribution represented by a given set of SMC particle.

Parameters:

• weights – An array containing the weights of each particle.
• location – An array containing the locations of each particle.

Return type:

numpy.ndarray, shape (n_modelparams, n_modelparams).

Returns:

An array containing the estimated covariance matrix.

qinfer.utils.in_ellipsoid(x, A, c)

Determines which of the points x are in the closed ellipsoid with shape matrix A centered at c. For a single point x, this is computed as

$$(c-x)^T\cdot A^{-1}\cdot (c-x) \leq 1$$

Parameters:

• x (np.ndarray) – Shape (n_points, dim) or n_points.
• A (np.ndarray) – Shape (dim, dim), positive definite
• c (np.ndarray) – Shape (dim)

Returns:

bool or array of bools of length n_points

qinfer.utils.ellipsoid_volume(A=None, invA=None)

Returns the volume of an ellipsoid given either its matrix or the inverse of its matrix.

qinfer.utils.mvee(points, tol=0.001)

Returns the minimum-volume enclosing ellipse (MVEE) of a set of points, using the Khachiyan algorithm.

qinfer.utils.uniquify(seq)

Returns the unique elements of a sequence seq.

qinfer.utils.format_uncertainty(value, uncertianty, scinotn_break=4)

Given a value and its uncertianty, format as a LaTeX string for pretty-printing.

Parameters:scinotn_break (int) – How many decimal points to print before breaking into scientific notation.