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 versions above 3.8, regardless of the platform. The stable version can be installed via PyPI:

pip install scikit-fda

It is also available from conda-forge: .. code:

conda install -c conda-forge scikit-fda

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

git clone https://github.com/GAA-UAM/scikit-fda.git
python3.8 -m pip install ./scikit-fda

Citing scikit-fda

Please, if you find this software useful in your work, reference it citing the following paper:

@article{ramos-carreno++_2024_scikit-fda,
  author = {Ramos-Carreño, Carlos and Torrecilla, José L. and Carbajo Berrocal, Miguel and Marcos Manchón, Pablo and Suárez, Alberto},
  doi = {10.18637/jss.v109.i02},
  journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
  month = may,
  number = {2},
  pages = {1--37},
  title = {{scikit-fda: A Python Package for Functional Data Analysis}},
  url = {https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v109i02},
  volume = {109},
  year = {2024}
}

You can additionally cite the software repository itself using:

@misc{ramos-carreno++_2024_scikit-fda-repo,
  author = {The scikit-fda developers},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3468127},
  month = feb,
  title = {scikit-fda: Functional Data Analysis in Python},
  url = {https://github.com/GAA-UAM/scikit-fda},
  year = {2024}
}

If you want to reference a particular version for reproducibility, check the version-specific DOIs available in Zenodo.

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.

License

The package is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License. A copy of the license can be found along with the code.