State

State objects are used to store the current state of the Markov chain. States are subclassed from collections.OrderedDict so that the elements are in a known order.

class state.State

State object for storing parameter values.

Inherits from OrderedDict.

freeze()

Return a immutable tuple of the state values.

static fromfunc(func)

Initialize a State from the arguments of a function

fromvector(vec)

Update the state using a numpy array.

Parameters:vec – np.array for updating the state.

tovector()

Return the parameter values as a flat vector.