Remove vb.MBN and vb.Gamma

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Implementation and derivation of "Variational Bayesian inference for a nonlinear forward model." [Chappell et al. 2008] for arbitrary, user-defined model errors.

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Remove vb.MBN and vb.Gamma #43

Closed TTitscher closed 3 years ago

TTitscher commented 3 years ago

Those two distributions are tailored for our VB algorithm but the associated values -- means and precision matrix from vb.MVN and shape and scale from vb.Gamma -- can also be extracted from scipy.stats.multivariate_normal and scipy.stats.gamma.

IMO the only question would be how to transfer the feature of vb.MVN.named_mean("some_prm_name") there...

TTitscher commented 3 years ago

Over time, the distributions gained a lot of functionality related to post-processing and creation. Their methods dist allow for conversion to the scipy distributions.