ernest: A Toolkit for Nested Sampling

Bayesian evidence estimation and posterior inference with the nested sampling algorithm, described in Skilling (2006) doi:10.1214/06-BA127 and Buchner (2023) doi:10.1214/23-SS144 , along with S3 methods for simulating uncertainty and creating visualisations.

See also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/ropensci/ernest

• https://docs.ropensci.org/ernest/

• Report bugs at https://github.com/ropensci/ernest/issues

Author

Maintainer: Kyle Dewsnap kyle.dewsnap@ubc.ca (ORCID) [copyright holder]

Authors:

• Kyle Dewsnap kyle.dewsnap@ubc.ca (ORCID) [copyright holder]

Other contributors:

• TJ Mahr [reviewer]

• Robert Kubinec [reviewer]

• Michael Hughes [copyright holder]