Contributions

Feel free to fork the repository and submit a pull request with either new features or bug fixes. External contributions are very welcome. In particular, please check the expected future areas for development.

Questions and suggestions

special was developed by Valentin Christiaens. Feel free to contact me at valentin.christiaens@uliege.be if you have any question or suggestion.

Acknowledgements

Please cite Christiaens et al. (2022) if you use special for your research, along with (where relevant):

• Foreman-Mackey et al. (2013) if you use the emcee MCMC sampler;

• Skilling (2004), Mukherjee et al. (2006), or Feroz et al. (2009) if you use the nested sampler nestle in ‘classic’, ‘single’ or ‘multi’ mode, respectively. Please also mention the nestle GitHub repository;

• Buchner (2021) if you use the UltraNest nested sampler.