ThunderStorm01777 / QuantEcon.py

A community based Python library for quantitative economics

Quantitative Economics (Python)

A code library for quantitative economic modeling in Python

Libary Website: http://quantecon.org/python_index.html

Installation

See the library website for instructions

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Additional Links

1. Project Coordinators
2. Lead Developers
3. QuantEcon Lecture Website

License

Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Thomas J. Sargent and John Stachurski: BSD-3 All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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Major Changes

Ver. 0.3.3 (21-July-2016)

1. Remove python2.7 classifiers project only supports python3.5+
2. Migrate sa_indices to be a utility function for the markov submodule
3. Updates probvec to include a multi-core parallel option using numba infrastructure in quantecon/random/utilities.py

Ver. 0.3.2 (25-April-2016)

1. Minor changes to NormalFormGame. See PR #226
2. Update tauchen code to make use of Numba. See PR #227
3. Remove Python 2.7 from test environment. Will support Python 3.5+
4. Updated qe.util.nb_fetch to not overwrite files by default
5. Remove num_actions from DiscreteDP. See PR #236
6. Add states/nodes to MarkovChain/DiGraph. See PR #237
7. Updated DiscreteDP to include backward_induction (DiscreteDP now accepts beta=1). See PR #244
8. Numba is now a formal dependency.
9. Modified tauchen to return a MarkovChain instance. See PR #250

Ver. 0.3.1 (22-January-2016)

1. Adds the quantecon/game_theory/ sub package
2. Updates api for using distributions as a module qe.distributions

Ver. 0.3

1. Removes quantecon/models subpackage and the collection of code examples. Code has been migrated to the QuantEcon.applications repository.
2. Adds a utility for fetching notebook dependencies from QuantEcon.applications to support community contributed notebooks.