Bambi 0.8.0

Bambi 0.8.0

New features

• Add VonMises ("vonmises") built-in family (#453)
• Model.predict() gains a new argument include_group_specific to determine if group-specific effects are considered when making predictions (#470)
• Add Multinomial ("multinomial") built-in family (#490)

Maintenance and fixes

• Add posterior predictive sampling method to "categorical" family (#458)
• Require Python >= 3.7.2 to fix NoReturn type bug in Python (#463)
• Fixed the wrong builtin link given by link="inverse" was wrong. It returned the same result as link="cloglog" (#472)
• Replaced plain dictionaries with namedtuples when same dictionary structure was repeated many times (#472)
• The function check_full_rank() in utils.py now checks the array is 2 dimensional (#472)
• Removed _extract_family_prior() from bambi/families as it was unnecesary (#472)
• Removed bambi/families/utils.py as it was unnecessary (#472)
• Removed external links and unused datasets (#483)
• Replaced "_coord_group_factor" with "__factor_dim" and "_coord_group_expr" with "__expr_dim" in dimension/coord names (#499)
• Fixed a bug related to modifying the types of the columns in the original data frame (#502)

Documentation

• Add circular regression example (#465)
• Add Categorical regression example (#457)
• Add Beta regression example (#442)
• Add Radon Example (#440)
• Fix typos and clear up writing in some docs (#462)
• Documented the module bambi/defaults (#472)
• Improved documentation and made it more consistent (#472)
• Cleaned Strack RRR example (#479)

Deprecation

• Removed old default priors (#474)
• Removed draws parameter from Model.predict() method (#504)