Source code for pyhf.infer.test_statistics

from .. import get_backend
from .mle import fixed_poi_fit, fit


[docs]def qmu(mu, data, pdf, init_pars, par_bounds): r""" The test statistic, :math:`q_{\mu}`, for establishing an upper limit on the strength parameter, :math:`\mu`, as defiend in Equation (14) in :xref:`arXiv:1007.1727`. .. math:: :nowrap: \begin{equation} q_{\mu} = \left\{\begin{array}{ll} -2\ln\lambda\left(\mu\right), &\hat{\mu} < \mu,\\ 0, & \hat{\mu} > \mu \end{array}\right. \end{equation} Args: mu (Number or Tensor): The signal strength parameter data (Tensor): The data to be considered pdf (~pyhf.pdf.Model): The HistFactory statistical model used in the likelihood ratio calculation init_pars (Tensor): The initial parameters par_bounds(Tensor): The bounds on the paramter values Returns: Float: The calculated test statistic, :math:`q_{\mu}` """ tensorlib, optimizer = get_backend() mubhathat, fixed_poi_fit_lhood_val = fixed_poi_fit( mu, data, pdf, init_pars, par_bounds, return_fitted_val=True ) muhatbhat, unconstrained_fit_lhood_val = fit( data, pdf, init_pars, par_bounds, return_fitted_val=True ) qmu = fixed_poi_fit_lhood_val - unconstrained_fit_lhood_val qmu = tensorlib.where( muhatbhat[pdf.config.poi_index] > mu, tensorlib.astensor(0.0), qmu )[0] return tensorlib.clip(qmu, 0, max_value=None)