PyMC3 Distributions

Asymmetric Laplace Distribution

asymmetric_laplace.py

Asymmetric Laplace Distribution, with location parameter 0. This is used as our NPI Effectiveness prior.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_Laplace_distribution

class epimodel.pymc3_distributions.asymmetric_laplace.AsymmetricLaplace(name, *args, **kwargs)

Bases: pymc3.distributions.distribution.Continuous

Assymetric Laplace Distribution

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_Laplace_distribution

logp(value)

Compute logp.

Parameters

value – evaluation point

Returns

log probability at evaluation point

random(point=None, size=None)

Draw random samples from this distribution, using the inverse CDF method.

Parameters
  • point – not used

  • size – size of sample to draw

Returns

Samples