pymc.HalfCauchy — PyMC 5.23.0 documentation (original) (raw)

class pymc.HalfCauchy(name, *args, rng=None, dims=None, initval=None, observed=None, total_size=None, transform=UNSET, default_transform=UNSET, **kwargs)[source]#

Half-Cauchy distribution.

The pdf of this distribution is

\[f(x \mid \beta) = \frac{2}{\pi \beta [1 + (\frac{x}{\beta})^2]}\]

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../../../_images/pymc-HalfCauchy-1.png

Support \(x \in [0, \infty)\)
Mode 0
Mean undefined
Variance undefined

Parameters:

betatensor_like of float

Scale parameter (beta > 0).

Methods

HalfCauchy.dist(beta, *args, **kwargs) Create a tensor variable corresponding to the cls distribution.