Multi-Core Markov-Chain Monte Carlo (MC3)

Author:Patricio Cubillos and collaborators (see Collaborators)
Contact:patricio.cubillos[at]oeaw.ac.at
Organizations:University of Central Florida (UCF), Space Research Institute (IWF)
Web Site:https://github.com/pcubillos/MCcubed
Date:Aug 11, 2019

Features

MC3 is a powerful Bayesian-statistics tool that offers:

  • Levenberg-Marquardt least-squares optimization.
  • Markov-chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) posterior-distribution sampling following the:
    • Metropolis-Hastings algorithm with Gaussian proposal distribution,
    • Differential-Evolution MCMC (DEMC), or
    • DEMCzs (Snooker).

The following features are available when running MC3:

  • Execution from the Shell prompt or interactively through the Python interpreter.
  • Single- or multiple-CPU parallel computing.
  • Uniform non-informative, Jeffreys non-informative, or Gaussian-informative priors.
  • Gelman-Rubin convergence test.
  • Share the same value among multiple parameters.
  • Fix the value of parameters to constant values.
  • Correlated-noise estimation with the Time-averaging or the Wavelet-based Likelihood estimation methods.

Note

MC3 works in both Python2.7 and Python3!

Collaborators

All of these people have made a direct or indirect contribution to MCcubed, and in many instances have been fundamental in the development of this package.

  • Patricio Cubillos (UCF, IWF) patricio.cubillos[at]oeaw.ac.at
  • Joseph Harrington (UCF)
  • Nate Lust (UCF)
  • AJ Foster (UCF)
  • Madison Stemm (UCF)
  • Tom Loredo (Cornell)
  • Kevin Stevenson (UCF)
  • Chris Campo (UCF)
  • Matt Hardin (UCF)
  • Ryan Hardy (UCF)
  • Monika Lendl (IWF)
  • Ryan Challener (UCF)
  • Michael Himes (UCF)

Be Kind

Please cite this paper if you found MC3 useful for your research:
Cubillos et al. (2017): On the Correlated-noise Analyses Applied to Exoplanet Light Curves, AJ, 153, 3.

We welcome your feedback, but do not necessarily guarantee support. Please send feedback or inquiries to:

MC3 is open-source open-development software under the MIT License.

Thank you for using MC3!

Documentation for Previous Releases

If you have an older version, you can compile these docs, according to your version into a pdf with the following commands:

# cd into MCcubed/docs
make latexpdf

The output pdf docs will be located at .../MCcubed/docs/latex/MC3.pdf.