Johannes Buchner

> After completing the install for CIAO with the following steps: > > ```shell > bash ciao_install > pip install sherpa # (installs numpy) > python setup.py install # inside...

BXA only requires scipy for some plotting niceties for xspec. However, sometimes scipy is difficult to install on servers, so I do not want to make it a formal requirement...

You mentioned here the MacOS install attempt: > After completing the install for CIAO with the following steps: > > bash ciao_install > pip install sherpa # (installs numpy) >...

Thank you for catching this. The paper and doc are now updated to state: > BXA shines especially > > when systematically analysing a large data-set, or > > when...

Hmm, doesn't that mean data was

That code (binning function) is only supposed to be run on count data, not subtracted data.

Probably the exception should be raised earlier, in the binning function.

I also think that Polar could be a bibtex library manager (similar to what JabRef, Mendeley or docear try to do). Below is an example of bibtex as managed by...

Yes, the dump_callback would be the right way to do it. However, since I have not used it before, the implementation is not really tested. You will receive nsamples, nlive,...

You can always start with ``` python def func(*args): print args ``` but in this case, using [ctypes](http://python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/tutorial.html) to [convert the array](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4101536/multi-dimensional-char-array-array-of-strings-in-python-ctypes) ``` python def func(nsamples, nlive, n, postdist): print...