From 83bdb06e65ac5476c51ffe92361bf3a5cf1b86f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chad Hanna <chad.hanna@ligo.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 04:32:22 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] far.py: change initial guess for extinction model to 5 which
 splits the difference between its previous value of 1 and its current value
 of 10.  We found some offline cases where 10 wasn't so great and 1 wasn't so
 great online. Hopefully 5 is better. FIXME ditch this scipy routine.

---
 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 e4925179dd..f2fa2cccf0 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(), 10.), xtol = 1e-8, ftol = 1e-8, disp = 0)
+		norm, rate_eff, m = optimize.fmin(ssr, (zl.sum() / bg.sum(), zl.sum(), 5.), 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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