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hyper-parameter estimation likelihood

Several people (@colm.talbot, @gregory.ashton, @grant.meadors) have urgent need to do hyper-parameter estimation with tupak. There are multiple applications, but we should create a single function that can be adapted to all of these applications.

I recommend that we create a python function to do this. The inputs should include

  • The number of events.

  • Lists of posterior samples.

  • List of parameters described by hyper-parameters.

  • List of hyper-parameters.

  • The prior that was used to generate the posterior samples.

  • The conditional prior.

  • Create general tupak.hyper-pe function.

@sylvia.biscoveanu

Edited by Michael Williams