From 831c1aa791415a34dc9a2ed8ec22e911561f014b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "chad.hanna" <crh184@psu.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:11:41 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] far.py: update initial guess for extinction model fit

---
 gstlal-inspiral/python/far.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gstlal-inspiral/python/far.py b/gstlal-inspiral/python/far.py
index 8ac6024de5..c8fcb50a71 100644
--- a/gstlal-inspiral/python/far.py
+++ b/gstlal-inspiral/python/far.py
@@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ WHERE
 			# for non-uniform binning.
 			return numpy.trapz(square_error, x)
 
-		norm, rate_eff, m = optimize.fmin(ssr, (zl.sum() / bg.sum(), zl.sum(), 1.), xtol = 1e-8, ftol = 1e-8, disp = 0)
+		norm, rate_eff, m = optimize.fmin(ssr, (zl.sum() / bg.sum(), zl.sum(), 10.), xtol = 1e-8, ftol = 1e-8, disp = 0)
 
 		# compute survival probability model from best fit
 		survival_probability = mk_survival_probability(rate_eff, m)
-- 
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