Parameter¶
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class
astropy.modeling.
Parameter
(name=u'', description=u'', default=None, getter=None, setter=None, fixed=False, tied=False, min=None, max=None, bounds=None, model=None)[source] [edit on github]¶ Bases:
object
Wraps individual parameters.
This class represents a model’s parameter (in a somewhat broad sense). It acts as both a descriptor that can be assigned to a class attribute to describe the parameters accepted by an individual model (this is called an “unbound parameter”), or it can act as a proxy for the parameter values on an individual model instance (called a “bound parameter”).
Parameter instances never store the actual value of the parameter directly. Rather, each instance of a model stores its own parameters as either hidden attributes or (in the case of
FittableModel
) in an array. A bound Parameter simply wraps the value in a Parameter proxy which provides some additional information about the parameter such as its constraints.Unbound Parameters are not associated with any specific model instance, and are merely used by model classes to determine the names of their parameters and other information about each parameter such as their default values and default constraints.
Parameters: name : str
parameter name
description : str
parameter description
default : float or array
default value to use for this parameter
getter : callable
a function that wraps the raw (internal) value of the parameter when returning the value through the parameter proxy (eg. a parameter may be stored internally as radians but returned to the user as degrees)
setter : callable
a function that wraps any values assigned to this parameter; should be the inverse of getter
fixed : bool
if True the parameter is not varied during fitting
tied : callable or False
if callable is supplied it provides a way to link the value of this parameter to another parameter (or some other arbitrary function)
min : float
the lower bound of a parameter
max : float
the upper bound of a parameter
bounds : tuple
specify min and max as a single tuple–bounds may not be specified simultaneously with min or max
model : object
an instance of a Model class; this should only be used internally for creating bound Parameters
Attributes Summary
bounds
The minimum and maximum values of a parameter as a tuple constraints
Types of constraints a parameter can have. default
Parameter default value fixed
Boolean indicating if the parameter is kept fixed during fitting. max
A value used as an upper bound when fitting a parameter min
A value used as a lower bound when fitting a parameter name
Parameter name shape
The shape of this parameter’s value array. size
The size of this parameter’s value array. tied
Indicates that this parameter is linked to another one. value
The unadorned value proxied by this parameter Methods Summary
Attributes Documentation
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bounds
¶ The minimum and maximum values of a parameter as a tuple
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constraints
= (u'fixed', u'tied', u'bounds')¶ Types of constraints a parameter can have. Excludes ‘min’ and ‘max’ which are just aliases for the first and second elements of the ‘bounds’ constraint (which is represented as a 2-tuple).
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default
¶ Parameter default value
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fixed
¶ Boolean indicating if the parameter is kept fixed during fitting.
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max
¶ A value used as an upper bound when fitting a parameter
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min
¶ A value used as a lower bound when fitting a parameter
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name
¶ Parameter name
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shape
¶ The shape of this parameter’s value array.
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size
¶ The size of this parameter’s value array.
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tied
¶ Indicates that this parameter is linked to another one.
A callable which provides the relationship of the two parameters.
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value
¶ The unadorned value proxied by this parameter
Methods Documentation
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copy
(name=None, description=None, default=None, getter=None, setter=None, fixed=False, tied=False, min=None, max=None, bounds=None)[source] [edit on github]¶ Make a copy of this
Parameter
, overriding any of its core attributes in the process (or an exact copy).The arguments to this method are the same as those for the
Parameter
initializer. This simply returns a newParameter
instance with any or all of the attributes overridden, and so returns the equivalent of:Parameter(self.name, self.description, ...)
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