Examples

To help get you started using mrpy, we’ve compiled a few examples. In fact, many of these examples are used explicitly to produce the figures which appear in the MRP paper (Murray, Robotham, Power 2018). Other simple examples can be found in the API documentation for each object.

So, what would you like to learn?

• How to get started
  • Core Functionality
  • Pure Stats
  • Physical Dependence
  • Fitting MRP
• Fit MRP parameters to model data
  • Fit across redshift and overdensity
  • Fit against different cosmology and halo type
• Fit MRP parameters to a suite of simulation data simultaneously
  • Preparing the data
  • Running the fits
  • Analysis
• Explore an entirely analytic model which includes no Poisson error
  • What is the expected variance of parameters versustruncation mass?
  • What is the expected correlation of parameters versus truncation mass?
• Determine relationship of MRP parameters to physical ones
  • Checking Transfer model and Resolution Parameters
  • Mmin and Mmax Determination
  • Data Generation
  • Return from Eureqa
• Use different parameterisations of the MRP and check how well they perform
  • Create Data
  • Make a Plot
• Use the MRP to explore the relation between halo mass and stellar mass
  • Motivation and numerical solution
  • Empirical Models from Literature
  • Defining our own extended model
• Construct a custom fit for an extension of the MRP: a double-Schechter function.