Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: bayesfit
Version: 2.4
Summary: Bayesian Psychometric Curve Fitting Module
Home-page: http://github.com/slugocm/BayesFit
Author: Michael Slugocki
Author-email: slugocm@gmail.com
License: Apache 2.0
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: LICENSE.txt

Bayesian Psychometric Curve Fitting tool 
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:Authors:
    Michael Slugocki


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**Special Note from Author:**

[ updated on: 2024/02/17 ]

BayesFit now has a brand new website (http://www.bayesfit.org).

Some outstanding issues have been addressed, and a new PYPI version of BayesFit (version 2.4) has been released.  Please update to the latest version to get all the benefits.
 
Kind Regards,  
🌳 M 🌳

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**Citation:**

Slugocki, M., Sekuler, A.B. and Bennett, P., 2019. BayesFit: A tool for modeling psychophysical data using Bayesian inference. *Journal of Open Research Software*, 7(1), p.2. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/jors.202

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**API documentation**: http://www.bayesfit.org

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**Issues? Submit a question here**: https://github.com/SlugocM/bayesfit/issues

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Release Notes
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Release 2.4:

- **New dedicated website for API documentation at: www.bayesfit.org**
- Fixed issue with casting to float using numpy

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**BayesFit** provides a simple and easy to use interface to fit and plot psychometric functions using Bayesian inference via numerical integration.

Important links
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- Use documentation: http://www.bayesfit.org
- Source code repository: https://github.com/slugocm/bayesfit
- Issue tracker: https://github.com/slugocm/bayesfit/issues


Basic Installation [Linux/ Windows/ macOS]
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Packages required (versions specified in requirements.txt): 
`Numpy <http://www.numpy.org/>`_
`Matplotlib <https://matplotlib.org/>`_
`Scipy <https://docs.scipy.org/doc/>`_

To install required packages if the versions are out of date, or not installed in your working environment, first download the **requirements.txt** file in this repository.  Then navigate to the directory that contains the downloaded text file using the command-prompt.  Then type: 

::

   pip install -r requirements.txt

**RECOMMENDED:** BayesFit and required packages may be installed from the `Python Package Index
<https://pypi.python.org/pypi>`_ using ``pip``.

::

   pip install bayesfit

Alternatively, if required packages are already installed on your system, BayesFit can be installed via:

::

   git clone --recursive https://github.com/slugocm/bayesfit.git
   cd bayesfit
   python setup.py install


Upgrading BayesFit
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Simply type: 

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    pip install bayesfit -U


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