New Continuous Process: Mixed Poisson

[crflynn]

New Continuous Process: Mixed Poisson

[crflynn]

I saw your PR for this process but I think it might be simpler to just subclass PoissonProcess and make use of the already existing code. Additionally, you would need to

• provide init args consisting of an rate_func, as well as rate_args, and rate_kwargs for that function to ensure it is generalized enough for any rng package (random, numpy, scipy, etc.).
• override the rate attribute to call rate_func(*rate_args, **rate_kwargs)

[Gabinou]

Following your comments and suggestions, I have implemented changes:

• MixedPoissonProcess now inherits from Poisson process. I have eliminated some amount of code repetition.
• Eliminated some other repetitions by way of the gen_rate() method.
• *rate_args and **rate_kwargs are implemented.
• New test fixtures for rate_kwargs. The tests seem to be in working order.
• Modified the continuous.rst to include the MixedPoissonProcess class.

Still to be implemented is:

• Making sure the code fits style standards. I will work on that for the implementation of the appropriate features, mostly.

Is the pull request in a more acceptable state?
And thank you for your comments and help.

[crflynn]

This is ok but there are still a lot of issues that need to be addressed.

I think I might merge this into a separate dev branch and clean it up if you don't mind. I'm hoping that maybe you'll track the changes closely and if needed I can explain the reasoning for them. Is that ok?

[Gabinou]

This sounds marvelous. When it is up to scratch, I will use it as a template for my future pull requests.

Thank you very much!

[crflynn]

I requested some changes in the PR. Please address them. Thanks.

[Gabinou]

All changes were addressed. If this makes this feature acceptable, I will get to upgrading other features also.

[crflynn]

@Gabinou I have merged your PR #8 and made several changes that I think make the implementation a bit cleaner. You may refer to the commits in the mixed branch for the changes. Thanks for contributing.