Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: parameters
Version: 0.2.1
Summary: Management of large, hierarchical parameter sets for modelling and simulation
Home-page: http://neuralensemble.org/parameters
Author: The NeuralEnsemble Community
Author-email: davison@unic.cnrs-gif.fr
License: GPLv2
Description: ==========
        Parameters
        ==========
        
        We consider it to be best practice to cleanly separate the parameters of a model
        from the model itself. At the least, parameters should be defined in a separate
        section at the start of a file. Ideally, they should be defined in a separate
        file entirely. This makes version control easier, since the model code typically
        changes less often than the parameters, and makes it easier to track a
        simulation project, since the parameter sets can be stored in a database,
        displayed in a GUI, etc.
        
        
        The **Parameters** package provides Python classes to make it easier to work with
        parameter sets for complex models.  In particular it provides tools for
        
        * working with parameters for models that have a deep hierarchical structure;
        * specifying that a parameter value should be drawn from a random distribution;
        * specifying a range of values, for example for performing a sensitivity analysis;
        * specifying the physical dimensions and range of permissible values of parameters;
        * defining and iterating over multiple points in a parameter space;
        * validation of parameter sets against a pre-defined schema.
        
        
        License
        =======
        
        Copyright (C) 2008-2013  Andrew Davison, Eilif Muller, Jan Antolik
        
        Parameters is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
        it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
        the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
        (at your option) any later version.
        
        This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
        but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
        MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
        GNU General Public License for more details.
        
        You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
        with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
        51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
        
        The GNU General Public License does not permit this software to be
        redistributed in proprietary programs.
        
        See source:LICENSE.txt
        
        
        Installation
        ============
        
          $ pip install parameters
        
        Documentation
        =============
        
        https://parameters.readthedocs.org/
        
        
        Reporting Bugs
        ==============
        
        https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/parameters/issues
        
        
Keywords: simulation,parameters,hierarchical
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering
Classifier: Topic :: Utilities
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
