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Introduction

  • Installation
  • A quick guide to modeling and fitting in Sherpa
  • Sherpa and CIAO

User Documentation

  • What data is to be fit?
  • Creating model instances
  • Evaluating a model
  • Available Models
  • What statistic is to be used?
  • Optimisers: How to improve the current parameter values
  • Fitting the data
  • Visualisation
  • Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Poisson data
  • Utility routines

Worked Examples

  • Simple Interpolation
  • Comparing Gaussian, Lorentzian, and Voigt 1D models
  • Simple user model

An interactive application

  • Using Sessions to manage models and data

Notebooks

  • Sherpa Quick Start
  • Notebook support in Sherpa
  • A sample of plots

Extra Functionality

  • Optimizing functions

Getting Help

  • Bug Reports
  • Contributing to Sherpa development
  • Indices and tables
Sherpa
  • Overview: module code

All modules for which code is available

  • sherpa
    • sherpa.astro.background
    • sherpa.astro.data
    • sherpa.astro.fake
    • sherpa.astro.instrument
    • sherpa.astro.io
      • sherpa.astro.io.wcs
    • sherpa.astro.models
    • sherpa.astro.optical
    • sherpa.astro.plot
    • sherpa.astro.ui.utils
    • sherpa.astro.utils.xspec
    • sherpa.astro.xspec
      • sherpa.astro.xspec.utils
    • sherpa.data
    • sherpa.estmethods
    • sherpa.fit
    • sherpa.image
    • sherpa.instrument
    • sherpa.io
    • sherpa.models.basic
    • sherpa.models.model
    • sherpa.models.parameter
    • sherpa.models.regrid
    • sherpa.models.template
    • sherpa.optmethods
      • sherpa.optmethods.optfcts
    • sherpa.plot
      • sherpa.plot.utils
    • sherpa.sim
      • sherpa.sim.mh
      • sherpa.sim.sample
      • sherpa.sim.simulate
    • sherpa.stats
    • sherpa.ui.utils
    • sherpa.utils
      • sherpa.utils.err
      • sherpa.utils.logging
      • sherpa.utils.testing

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