ananke-causal 0.5.0

Ananke, named for the Greek primordial goddess of necessity and causality, is a python package for causal inference using the language of graphical models.

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Ananke, named for the Greek primordial goddess of necessity and causality, is a python package for causal inference using the language of graphical models

Contributors

• Rohit Bhattacharya
• Jaron Lee
• Razieh Nabi
• Preethi Prakash
• Ranjani Srinivasan

Interested contributors should check out the CONTRIBUTING.md for further details.

Installation

If graph visualization is not required then install via pip:

pip install ananke-causal

Alternatively, the package may be installed from gitlab by cloning and cd into the directory. Then, poetry (see https://python-poetry.org) can be used to install:

poetry install

Install with graph visualization

If graphing support is required, it is necessary to install graphviz.

Non M1 Mac instructions

Ubuntu:

sudo apt install graphviz libgraphviz-dev pkg-config

Mac (Homebrew):

brew install graphviz

Fedora:

sudo yum install graphviz

Once graphviz has been installed, then:

pip install ananke-causal[viz] # if pip is preferred

poetry install --extras viz # if poetry is preferred

M1 Mac specific instructions

If on M1 see this issue. The fix is to run the following before installing:

brew install graphviz
python -m pip install \
    --global-option=build_ext \
    --global-option="-I$(brew --prefix graphviz)/include/" \
    --global-option="-L$(brew --prefix graphviz)/lib/" \
    pygraphviz