Rename likelihood
How do people feel about changing the name of the main likelihood class? I have a couple of reasons why.
- We currently call the kind of awkward
likelihood.Likelihood
class. - It isn't very descriptive, I'm not sure what an optimal name is but
MatchedFilter
orGaussian
would be more descriptive. - If we want to extend to different use cases, even within GW astrophysics, we'll need more likelihoods. For example, population analysis needs a radically different likelihood. Also, if you're doing a cross-correlation search you may want a different likelihood.
- I feel like there's an opportunity for
TUPAK
themed likelihoods (although I won't be generating them as I know nothing about rap).
I understand this would change the UI so I think this should be a high priority if we decide to rename it.
@paul-lasky @gregory.ashton @rory-smith @eric.thrane @moritz.huebner