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Existing Python libraries and tools lack the ability to efficiently compute statistical test results for large datasets in the presence of missing values. This presents an issue as soon as constraints on runtime and memory availability…

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Changepoints are abrupt variations in the generative parameters of a data sequence. Online detection of changepoints is useful in modelling and prediction of time series in application areas such as finance, biometrics, and robotics. While…

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We introduce Geomstats, an open-source Python toolbox for computations and statistics on nonlinear manifolds, such as hyperbolic spaces, spaces of symmetric positive definite matrices, Lie groups of transformations, and many more. We…

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