scikit-fda: Functional Data Analysis in Python

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/, 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/.

Installation

Currently, scikit-fda is available in Python 3.6 and 3.7, regardless of the platform. The stable version can be installed via PyPI:

pip install 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.

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 python3.6:

git clone https://github.com/GAA-UAM/scikit-fda.git python3.6 -m pip install ./scikit-fda

Requirements

scikit-fda depends on the following packages:

cython - Python to C compiler
fdasrsf - 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.

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.