guide for the posterior files

results/agnosticPosterior/readme.md

+This directory includes three posterior files from the agnostic model analysis. 
+The analysis was run three times and the posteriors were combined to produce 
+the paper figures. 
+
+This is the data behind the plot for Figure A2 in the EPTA DR2 paper IV 
+ 	https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347433 
+
+The column headers in each posterior file are: 
+
+      logn: log of the merger rate per unite rest-frame time, comoving volume 
+            and logaritmic chirp mass interval
+      beta: the slope of the redshift distribution of sources
+     gamma: the cut-off of the redshift distribution of sources
+     alpha: the slope of the chirp mass distribution of sources
+     delta: the cut-off of the chirp mass distribution of sources
+      logL: the log likelihood for the parameter combination
+  logPrior: the log prior for the parameter combination 
+
+Note that the parameters and labels listed above differ slightly from those used 
+in the paper. The translation is: 
+
+| Code parameter | Equivalent in the paper          |
+| --------       | -------                          |
+| logn           | log_{10} {\dot n}_{\rm 0}        |
+| beta           | \beta_{\rm z}                    |
+| gamma          |  z_{\rm 0}                       |
+| alpha          | \alpha_{\rm M}                   |
+| delta          | log_{10} \mathcal{M}_{\star} - 7 | 
+
+For further information about this model see Section 3.2.1 in EPTA DR2 paper IV 
+(eqn. 10).