How to marginalize over nuisance parameter using getdist ?
Posted: October 28 2017
Hi,
I am confused about how getdist do marginalizing over nuisance parameters. if we sample over N=n1+n2, N is number of total MCMC parameters, n1 is number of model parameters while n2 is number of nuisance parameters. After successfully sampling, we got the chains file (test.txt), each column corresponds to the chains of each parameters.
Here my confusion comes. How should we do marginalizing over n2 nuisance parameters, of course we can just read columns of n1 model paramters and get the contour plot, but it seems that no integration or averaging over nuisance n2 parameters is done.
So what is right way to use getdist to marginalize over n2 nuisance parameters?
Thanks for your reply.
Best wishes.
Xiaobo
I am confused about how getdist do marginalizing over nuisance parameters. if we sample over N=n1+n2, N is number of total MCMC parameters, n1 is number of model parameters while n2 is number of nuisance parameters. After successfully sampling, we got the chains file (test.txt), each column corresponds to the chains of each parameters.
Here my confusion comes. How should we do marginalizing over n2 nuisance parameters, of course we can just read columns of n1 model paramters and get the contour plot, but it seems that no integration or averaging over nuisance n2 parameters is done.
So what is right way to use getdist to marginalize over n2 nuisance parameters?
Thanks for your reply.
Best wishes.
Xiaobo