Welcome to PESummary’s core package

PESummary’s core package provides all of the necessary code for analysing, displaying and comparing data files from general inference problems.

Unified input/output

• The write function
• The read function

Manipulating posterior samples

• Array class
• SamplesDict class
• MCMCSamplesDict class
• MultiAnalysisSamplesDict class

Manipulating PDFs

• Analytic PDFs
• ProbabilityDict class
• ProbabilityDict2D class

The pesummary metafile

• Extract information from a PESummary file
  • Identifying the label for a specific run
  • Loading the configuration file for a specific run
  • Loading the samples for a specific run
  • Extract posterior samples using astropy or pandas
  • Converting file format
  • Loading all data for a specific run without PESummary

Plotting

• Seaborn extension
• Bounded KDEs
• Plotting from a meta file

Executables

PESummary boasts several executables to make it even easier to use, see below for details:

• summaryclean
• summarycombine
• summarycombine_posteriors
• summarycompare
• summaryextract
• summarymodify
• summarypages
• summarypageslw
• summarypublication
• summarysplit
• summaryversion