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Functional Data Analysis Python package

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scikit-fda: Functional Data Analysis in Python ==============================================

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Functional Data Analysis, or FDA, is the field of Statistics that analyses data that depend on a continuous parameter.

This package offers classes, methods and functions to give support to FDA in Python. Includes a wide range of utils to work with functional data, and its representation, exploratory analysis, or preprocessing, among other tasks such as inference, classification, regression or clustering of functional data. See documentation for further information on the features included in the package.

Documentation =============

The documentation is available at fda.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ <https://fda.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>_, which includes detailed information of the different modules, classes and methods of the package, along with several examples_ showing different functionalities.

The documentation of the latest version, corresponding with the develop version of the package, can be found at fda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ <https://fda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>_.

How do I start? ===============

If you want a quick overview of the package, we recommend you to try the new :doc:tutorial <auto_tutorial/index>. For articles about specific topics, feel free to explore the :doc:examples <auto_examples/index>. Want to check the documentation of a particular class or function? Try searching for it in the :doc:API list <apilist>.

Installation ============

Currently, scikit-fda is available in Python versions above 3.8, regardless of the platform. The stable version can be installed via PyPI_:

.. code::

pip install scikit-fda

It is also available from conda-forge_:

.. code::

conda install -c conda-forge scikit-fda

Installation from source


It is possible to install the latest version of the package, available in the develop branch, by cloning this repository and doing a manual installation.

.. code:: bash

git clone https://github.com/GAA-UAM/scikit-fda.git pip install ./scikit-fda

Make sure that your default Python version is currently supported, or change the python and pip commands by specifying a version, such as `python3.8:

.. code:: bash

git clone https://github.com/GAA-UAM/scikit-fda.git python3.8 -m pip install ./scikit-fda

Requirements


scikit-fda depends on the following packages:

  • fdasrsf python> - SRSF framework
  • findiff _ - Finite differences
  • matplotlib _ - Plotting with Python
  • multimethod _ - Multiple dispatch
  • numpy _ - The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python
  • pandas _ - Powerful Python data analysis toolkit
  • rdata _ - Reader of R datasets in .rda format in Python
  • scikit-datasets _ - Scikit-learn compatible datasets
  • scikit-learn _ - Machine learning in Python
  • scipy _ - Scientific computation in Python
  • setuptools _ - Python Packaging
The dependencies are automatically installed.

Citing scikit-fda =================

Please, if you find this software useful in your work, reference it citing the following paper:

.. code-block::

@article{ramos-carreno++2024scikit-fda, author = {Ramos-Carreño, Carlos and Torrecilla, José L. and Carbajo Berrocal, Miguel and Marcos Manchón, Pablo and Suárez, Alberto}, doi = {10.18637/jss.v109.i02}, journal = {Journal of Statistical Software}, month = may, number = {2}, pages = {1--37}, title = {{scikit-fda: A Python Package for Functional Data Analysis}}, url = {https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v109i02}, volume = {109}, year = {2024} }

You can additionally cite the software repository itself using:

.. code-block::

@misc{ramos-carreno++2024scikit-fda-repo, author = {The scikit-fda developers}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3468127}, month = feb, title = {scikit-fda: Functional Data Analysis in Python}, url = {https://github.com/GAA-UAM/scikit-fda}, year = {2024} }

If you want to reference a particular version for reproducibility, check the version-specific DOIs available in Zenodo.

Contributions ============= All contributions are welcome. You can help this project grow in multiple ways, from creating an issue, reporting an improvement or a bug, to doing a repository fork and creating a pull request to the development branch.

The people involved at some point in the development of the package can be found in the contributors file `_.

License =======

The package is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License. A copy of the license_ can be found along with the code.

.. examples: https://fda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/autoexamples/index.html .. _PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/scikit-fda/ .. _conda-forge: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/scikit-fda/

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Acknowledgements ================

The project has received financial support from projects PID2019-109387GB-I00, PID2019-106827GB-I00, and PID2022-139856NB-I00, funded by MCIN/ AEI / 10.13039/501100011033 / FEDER, UE, project IDEA-CM (TEC-2024/COM-89) from the Autonomous Community of Madrid, and from the ELLIS Unit Madrid. The authors acknowledge computational support from the Centro de Computación Científica-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (CCC-UAM).

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