The Stingray Modelling Interface

Stingray provides a custom-built fitting interface, built on top of scipy and emcee as well as a set of general functions and classes that allow the user to perform standard model fitting tasks on Fourier products, but also enable users to implement their own models and classes based on this framework.

Below, we show on some examples how this interface can be used.

• The Stingray Modeling API Explained
  • Some background
  • Likelihoods and Posteriors
  • Maximum Likelihood Fitting
  • Bayesian Parameter Estimation
  • Calibrating Likelihood Ratio Tests
  • Bayesian-ish QPO Searches
  • Convenience Functions