Percentage Point Functions for parameters

[vhaasteren]

This PR adds the Percentage Point Function (PPF) to Enterprise parameters. The PPF is the inverse of the CDF, so it can be used to sample from the distribution. Some Nested Sampling implementations require the PPF as input: for instance MultiNest requires the "hypercube transformation". That is done with the PPF.

Now we can do something like:

from enterprise.signals.parameter import LinearExp

le = LinearExp(1, 3)("LEXP")
le.get_ppf(0.5)

The Truncated Normal PPF is not yet implemented, but LinearExp, Normal, and Uniform are there.

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[vhaasteren]

It seems that this requires some extra unit tests. Actually, the unit tests for the entire parameter class do not check for exceptions. I'll just update it to check for everything...

[AaronDJohnson]

@vhaasteren Is there anything that needs to be done on this one?

[vhaasteren]

No, is ready to go