# pymc.PolyaGamma#

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

The Polya-Gamma distribution.

The distribution is parametrized by h (shape parameter) and z (exponential tilting parameter). The pdf of this distribution is

$f(x \mid h, z) = cosh^h(\frac{z}{2})e^{-\frac{1}{2}xz^2}f(x \mid h, 0),$

where $$f(x \mid h, 0)$$ is the pdf of a $$PG(h, 0)$$ variable. Notice that the pdf of this distribution is expressed as an alternating-sign sum of inverse-Gaussian densities.

$X = \Sigma_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{Ga(h, 1)}{d_k},$

where $$d_k = 2(k - 0.5)^2\pi^2 + z^2/2$$, $$Ga(h, 1)$$ is a gamma random variable with shape parameter h and scale parameter 1.

 Support $$x \in (0, \infty)$$ Mean $$dfrac{h}{4} if :math:$$, $$\dfrac{tanh(z/2)h}{2z}$$ otherwise. Variance $$0.041666688h$$ if $$z=0$$, $$\dfrac{h(sinh(z) - z)(1 - tanh^2(z/2))}{4z^3}$$ otherwise.
Parameters
htensor_like of float, default 1

The shape parameter of the distribution (h > 0).

ztensor_like of float, default 0

The exponential tilting parameter of the distribution.

References

1

Polson, Nicholas G., James G. Scott, and Jesse Windle. “Bayesian inference for logistic models using Pólya–Gamma latent variables.” Journal of the American statistical Association 108.504 (2013): 1339-1349.

2

Windle, Jesse, Nicholas G. Polson, and James G. Scott. “Sampling Polya-Gamma random variates: alternate and approximate techniques.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0506 (2014).

3

Luc Devroye. “On exact simulation algorithms for some distributions related to Jacobi theta functions.” Statistics & Probability Letters, Volume 79, Issue 21, (2009): 2251-2259.

4

Windle, J. (2013). Forecasting high-dimensional, time-varying variance-covariance matrices with high-frequency data and sampling Pólya-Gamma random variates for posterior distributions derived from logistic likelihoods.(PhD thesis). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2152/21842

Examples

rng = np.random.default_rng()
with pm.Model():
x = pm.PolyaGamma('x', h=1, z=5.5)
with pm.Model():
x = pm.PolyaGamma('x', h=25, z=-2.3, rng=rng, size=(100, 5))


Methods

 PolyaGamma.__init__(*args, **kwargs) PolyaGamma.dist([h, z]) Creates a tensor variable corresponding to the cls distribution. Compute the log of the cumulative distribution function for the Polya-Gamma distribution at the specified value. Calculate log-probability of Polya-Gamma distribution at specified value. PolyaGamma.moment(size, h, z)

Attributes

 rv_class rv_op