Prior

priors.Prior(self, name, auto_scale=True, dist=None, **kwargs)

Abstract specification of a term prior

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Default
name	str	Name of prior distribution. Must be the name of a PyMC distribution (e.g., "Normal", "Bernoulli", etc.)	required
auto_scale		Whether to adjust the parameters of the prior or use them as passed. Default to True.	True
kwargs	dict	Optional keywords specifying the parameters of the named distribution.	{}
dist	pymc.distributions.distribution.DistributionMeta or callable	A callable that returns a valid PyMC distribution. The signature must contain name, dims, and shape, as well as its own keyworded arguments.	None

Methods

Name	Description
update	Update the arguments of the prior with additional arguments

update

Prior.update(self, **kwargs)

Update the arguments of the prior with additional arguments

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Default
kwargs	dict	Optional keyword arguments to add to prior args.	{}