MetropolisHastings.h

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// @(#)root/roostats:$Id$
// Authors: Kevin Belasco        17/06/2009
// Authors: Kyle Cranmer         17/06/2009
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#ifndef ROOSTATS_MetropolisHastings
#define ROOSTATS_MetropolisHastings
 
#include "RooStats/RooStatsUtils.h"
#include "Rtypes.h"
#include "TObject.h"
#include "RooArgSet.h"
#include "RooStats/ProposalFunction.h"
#include "RooStats/MarkovChain.h"
 
namespace RooStats {
 
   class MetropolisHastings :  public TObject {
 
 
   public:
      enum FunctionSign {kNegative, kPositive, kSignUnset};
      enum FunctionType {kRegular, kLog, kTypeUnset};
 
      /// default constructor
      MetropolisHastings();
 
      /// alternate constructor
      MetropolisHastings(RooAbsReal& function, const RooArgSet& paramsOfInterest,
            ProposalFunction& proposalFunction, Int_t numIters);
 
      /// main purpose of MetropolisHastings - run Metropolis-Hastings
      /// algorithm to generate Markov Chain of points in the parameter space
      virtual MarkovChain* ConstructChain();
 
      /// specify the parameters to store in the chain
      /// if not specified all of them will be stored
      virtual void SetChainParameters(const RooArgSet& set)
      { fChainParams.removeAll();  fChainParams.add(set);  RemoveConstantParameters(&fChainParams); }
      /// specify all the parameters of interest in the interval
      virtual void SetParameters(const RooArgSet& set)
      { fParameters.removeAll();  fParameters.add(set);  RemoveConstantParameters(&fParameters); }
      /// set the proposal function for suggesting new points for the MCMC
      virtual void SetProposalFunction(ProposalFunction& proposalFunction)
      { fPropFunc = &proposalFunction; }
      /// set the number of iterations to run the metropolis algorithm
      virtual void SetNumIters(Int_t numIters)
      { fNumIters = numIters; }
      /// set the number of steps in the chain to discard as burn-in,
      /// starting from the first
      virtual void SetNumBurnInSteps(Int_t numBurnInSteps)
      { fNumBurnInSteps = numBurnInSteps; }
      /// set the (likelihood) function
      virtual void SetFunction(RooAbsReal& function) { fFunction = &function; }
      /// set the sign of the function
      virtual void SetSign(enum FunctionSign sign) { fSign = sign; }
      /// set the type of the function
      virtual void SetType(enum FunctionType type) { fType = type; }
 
 
   protected:
      RooAbsReal* fFunction;       ///< function that will generate likelihood values
      RooArgSet fParameters;       ///< RooRealVars that define all parameter space
      RooArgSet fChainParams;      ///< RooRealVars that are stored in the chain
      ProposalFunction* fPropFunc; ///< Proposal function for MCMC integration
      Int_t fNumIters;             ///< number of iterations to run metropolis algorithm
      Int_t fNumBurnInSteps;       ///< number of iterations to discard as burn-in, starting from the first
      enum FunctionSign fSign;     ///< whether the likelihood is negative (like NLL) or positive
      enum FunctionType fType;     ///< whether the likelihood is on a regular, log, (or other) scale
 
      // whether we should take the step, based on the value of d, fSign, fType
      virtual bool ShouldTakeStep(double d);
      virtual double CalcNLL(double xL);
 
      ClassDefOverride(MetropolisHastings,2) // Markov Chain Monte Carlo calculator for Bayesian credible intervals
   };
}
 
 
#endif