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

License

Copyright © 2013-2017 Thomas J. Sargent and John Stachurski: BSD-3 All rights reserved.

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Major Changes

Ver 0.4.5 (08-July-2019)

Merged pull requests:

• ENH: Add LQMarkov. #489 (shizejin)
• FIX: Increase tol in rouwenhorst test. #492 (shizejin) to fix #491
• TRAVIS: Set coverage branch as linux. #490 (shizejin)
• FIX: DOC: Remove matplotlib.sphinxext.only\_directives #488 (oyamad)

Ver 0.4.4 (24-May-2019)

1. FEAT: Add drift term keyword to markov.tauchen. #484 (shizejin)
2. FIX: Import scipy.sparse.linalg #482 (oyamad)
3. FIX: sample\_without\_replacement using guvectorize #479 (oyamad)
4. FEAT: Add random\_pure\_actions and random\_mixed\_actions #477 (okuchap)
5. FIX: Raise correct error when A is not square in LinearStateSpace #475 (QBatista)
6. FIX: alerts by lgtm #474 (okuchap)
7. Fix flake8 errors #470 (rht)
8. TEST: Fix the names of tests for brent\_max #469 (QBatista)
9. DOC: Update example for nelder\_mead #468 (QBatista)
10. FIX: all F401 unused imports #467 (rht)

Ver 0.4.3 (17-December-2018)

1. INFRA: Isolate rtd-specific requirements to doc-requirements.txt #464 (rht)
2. DOCS: fix for lorenz documentation #462 (natashawatkins)
3. INFRA: Disable performance tests #461 (rht)
4. ENH: quad: Import sympy only when necessary #459 (rht)
5. INFRA: Travis: Move dependency installs with wheels available to pip #458 (rht)
6. DOCS: Update Documentation #454 (mmcky)
7. README: Update coveralls badge to use svg #453 (rht)
8. FIX: Fix warning in test_pure_nash #451 (oyamad)
9. ENH: Add errors for invalid inputs for brent\_max #450 (QBatista)
10. INFRA: Travis: Add macOS to the build matrix #448 (rht)
11. FEAT: Add Shorrocks mobility index #447 (natashawatkins)
12. FIX: test method keyword of RepeatedGame.equilibrium\_payoffs\(\). #446 (shizejin)

Ver 0.4.2 (26-November-2018)

1. FEAT: Add AS algorithm. #433 (shizejin)
2. FEAT: Add method option in robustlq.py #437 (hinayuki64)
3. FEAT: Add Player.delete_action, NormalFormGame.delete_action #444 (oyamad)
4. FEAT: Add the Nelder-Mead algorithm #441 (QBatista)
5. FEAT: Added basic inequality mesasures: lorenz curve and gini #414 (cdagnino)
6. MAINT: Remove from future import ... #436 (hinayuki64)
7. FIX: Force tuple elements to have the same dtype #435 (oyamad)
8. DOC: fix brent_max docstring #440 (natashawatkins)
9. FIX: Disallow Player with 0 actions #443 (oyamad)

Ver 0.4.1 (17-September-2018)

1. FEAT: add solver for dynamic linear economies as LQ problem #426 (mmcky)
2. DOC: Fix the doc of root\_finding.py to display nicely #431 (QBatista)

Ver 0.4.0 (20-August-2018)

1. FEAT: Add bisection and brent's method for root finding. See PR #424 (spvdchachan)
2. FEAT: Add qhull\_options to game\_theory.vertex\_enumeration. See PR #421 (oyamad)
3. FEAT: Root finding. See PR #417 (chrishyland)
4. FEAT: Add 'interior-point' option to is\_dominated; add dominated\_actions. See PR #415 (oyamad)
5. FEAT: Add hamilton filter. See PR #405 (Shunsuke-Hori)
6. FEAT: Add sample game generators from bimatrix-generators. See PR #392 (oyamad)
7. MAINT: update to new rtd requirements spec. See PR #427 (mmcky)
8. MAINT: Add requests to setup.py. See PR #420 (oyamad)
9. MAINT: Add mock to the dependencies list. See PR #418 (oyamad)
10. TEST: Fix test_discrete_rv. See PR #412 (oyamad)
11. MAINT: add minimum version number for numba support. See PR #409 (mmcky)
12. MAINT: Setup an auto-generate changelog for releases. See PR #403 (mmcky)

Ver 0.3.8 (14-March-2018)

1. FEAT: Add random.draw. See PR #397
2. FEAT: Add Numba jit version of scipy.special.comb. See PR #377
3. FEAT: Add random_tournament_graph for game theory module. See PR #378
4. MAINT: Implement Sigma_infinity and K_infinity as properties. See PR #396
5. MAINT: Use np.ix_ to extract submatrix. See PR #389
6. MAINT: support_enumeration: Refactoring. See PR #384
7. MAINT: pure_nash_brute: Add tol option. See PR #385
8. MAINT: NormalFormGame: Add payoff_arrays attribute. See PR #382
9. MAINT: Re-implement next_k_array; add k_array_rank. See PR #379
10. FIX: Fix tac, toc, loop_timer to return float. See PR #387
11. FIX: Update to scipy.special.com. See PR #375
12. DEPRECATE: remove models subpackage. See PR #383
13. DOCS: Improvements to documentation. See PR #388

Contributors: oyamad, QBatista, mcsalgado, and okuchap

Ver 0.3.7 (01-November-2017)

1. FEAT: Add random_state option to arma.py with tests. See PR #329
2. FEAT: New features for timing functions. See PR #340
3. Improved test coverage (PR #343)
4. FEAT: Add option to supply a random seed for discrete_rv, lqcontrol, lqnash, lss, and quad (PR #346)
5. FIX: RBLQ: add pure forecasting case (PR #355)
6. FEAT: jit the 1d quadrature routines (PR #352)
7. FIX: Replace np.isfinite(cn) with cn * EPS < 1 (PR #361)
8. FEAT: Add option to solve_discrete_riccati to use scipy.linalg.solve_discrete_are (PR #362)
9. FIX: Bugfix to solve_discrete_riccati (PR #364)
10. Minor Fixes (PR #342)

Ver 0.3.6.2 (27-August-2017)

1. FIX: support_enumeration: Use _numba_linalg_solve. See PR #311
2. Updated Docstrings for better math rendering. See PR #315
3. ENH: added routines to convert ddp between full and SA formulations. See PR #318
4. Added tests for Distributions. See PR #324
5. Added tests for lemke howson exceptions. See PR #323
6. Added vertex_enumeration to game theory module. See PR #326
7. Added is_dominated method to game_theory.player. See PR #327
8. Minor Updates (PR #320, PR #321, PR #328)

Ver 0.3.5.1 (17-May-2017)

1. Add rouwenhorst method for approx AR(1) with MC. See PR #282
2. Added tests to improve coverage (PR #282, PR #303, PR #309)
3. Minor Fixes (PR #296, PR #297)

Ver. 0.3.4 (23-February-2017)

1. Add support_enumeration, a simple algorithm that computes all mixed-action Nash equilibria of a non-degenerate 2-player game. See PR #263
2. Various fixes for issues with numba. See PR #265, PR #283
3. Add lemke_howson algorithm to game_theory module. See PR #268
4. Add random game generators to game_theory module. See PR #270
5. Implement the imitation game algorithm by McLennan and Tourky. See PR #273
6. Add brute force for finding pure nash equilibria. See PR #276
7. Improve parameter names to QuantEcon.notebooks dependency fetcher. See PR #279
8. Utilities tic, tac and toc moved to top level namespace of package. See PR #280

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.