Hi, I get this error 'Unknown variable energy' when calling pm.bfmi(trace) on a trace variable that I sampled with trace=backend where backend is a Text() backend. This is not the reloaded trace from disk, but the original object returned by pm.sample. Same error on the trace loaded from disk. Any …

Text backend does not have all the information saved. Text backend will be deprecated and replace by xarray backend soon, so things should improve in the future.

'Unknown variable energy' error when calling `pm.bfmi(trace)`

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clausherther September 12, 2018, 1:03pm 3

Got it, thx!

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'Unknown variable energy' error when calling `pm.bfmi(trace)`

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