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joshspeagle / dynesty

Dynamic Nested Sampling package for computing Bayesian posteriors and evidences
https://dynesty.readthedocs.io/
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UserWarning during plotting question #200

Closed avivajpeyi closed 4 years ago

avivajpeyi commented 4 years ago

What does the following warning mean? 

The number of iterations and samples differ by an amount that isn't the number of final live points.

Raised by 

dynesty/plotting.py:173: UserWarning: The number of iterations and samples differ by an amount that isn't the number of final live points. `mark_final_live` has been disabled
joshspeagle commented 4 years ago

By default, runplot tries to add a little dashed line to indicate where the sampling terminated and the final set of live points are “recycled” to augment the set of samples. It checks for this by just seeing whether the number of samples is equal to the number of iterations plus the final number of live points. If they differ (which can happen for a variety of reasons), then this feature is just disabled and this warning is thrown. Does that help?

avivajpeyi commented 4 years ago

Yes! Thank you :)