elicito 0.7.0
A Python package for learning prior distributions based on expert knowledge
License: Apache-2.0
Requires Python: <3.14,>=3.11

# `elicito`: A Python package for expert prior elicitation

A Python package for learning prior distributions based on expert knowledge

**Key info :**
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**PyPI :**
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**Conda :**
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**Tests :**
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**Other info :**
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## Status
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- development: the project is actively being worked on
- finished: the project has achieved what it wanted
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  if you have questions, feel free to raise an issue
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+ development: the project is actively being worked on

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Full documentation can be found at:
[elicito.readthedocs.io](https://elicito.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
We recommend reading the docs there because the internal documentation links
don't render correctly on GitHub's viewer.

## Installation

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### As an application

If you want to use `elicito` as an application,
then we recommend using the 'locked' version of the package.
This version pins the version of all dependencies too,
which reduces the chance of installation issues
because of breaking updates to dependencies.

The locked version of Expert prior elicitation method can be installed with

=== "pip"

    ```sh
    pip install 'elicito[locked]'
    ```
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### As a library

If you want to use `elicito` as a library,
for example you want to use it
as a dependency in another package/application that you're building,
then we recommend installing the package with the commands below.
<!---
This method provides the loosest pins possible of all dependencies.
This gives you, the package/application developer,
as much freedom as possible to set the versions of different packages.
However, the tradeoff with this freedom is that you may install
incompatible versions of Expert prior elicitation method's dependencies
(we cannot test all combinations of dependencies,
particularly ones which haven't been released yet!).
Hence, you may run into installation issues.
If you believe these are because of a problem in `elicito`,
please [raise an issue](https://github.com/florence-bockting/elicito/issues).
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The (non-locked) version of `elicito` can be installed with `conda` for macOS
and Linux and with `pip` for Windows, macOS and Linux.

=== "conda"

    ```sh
    # only for macOS and Linux
    conda install conda-forge::elicito
    ```
=== "pip"

    ```sh
    # for macOS, Linux, and Windows
    pip install elicito
    ```

Additional dependencies can be installed using


=== "conda"

    If you are installing with conda, we recommend
    installing the extras by hand because there is no stable
    solution yet (see [conda issue #7502](https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/7502))
=== "pip"

    ```sh
    # To add all optional dependencies
    pip install 'elicito[full]'

    # To add plotting dependencies
    pip install 'elicito[plots]'

    # To add scipy dependency
    pip install 'elicito[scipy]'

    # To add pandas dependency
    pip install 'elicito[pandas]'
    ```

### For developers

For development, we rely on [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/)
for all our dependency management.
To get started, you will need to make sure that uv is installed
([instructions here](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/)
(we found that the self-managed install was best,
particularly for upgrading uv later).

For all of our work, we use our `Makefile`.
You can read the instructions out and run the commands by hand if you wish,
but we generally discourage this because it can be error prone.
In order to create your environment, run `make virtual-environment`.

If there are any issues, the messages from the `Makefile` should guide you through.
If not, please raise an issue in the
[issue tracker](https://github.com/florence-bockting/elicito/issues).

For the rest of our developer docs, please see [development][development].

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## Older versions

+ **v0.5.2**: [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.15452973.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15452973)
+ **v0.3.1**: [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/663057594.svg)](https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.15241853)

## Original template

This project was generated from this template:
[copier core python repository](https://gitlab.com/openscm/copier-core-python-repository).
[copier](https://copier.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) is used to manage and
distribute this template.