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Optimization (scipy.optimize)

SciPy documentation

A solver-selection guide spanning local and global optimization, roots, constrained problems, linear programming and assignment.

Investigate Which solver classes satisfy a fixed accuracy and feasibility target on a small declared suite of smooth and constrained problems?

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Ordinary Differential Equations

Stan User's Guide / Stan Development Team

A guide to using ODE models in inference, including solver choices, stiffness, tolerances, parameter estimation and adjoint methods.

Investigate How much do inferred parameters shift as ODE tolerances are tightened for a harmonic oscillator with synthetic observations?

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permutation_test

SciPy documentation

A reference for permutation tests that distinguishes exchangeability structures, exact enumeration and randomized null sampling.

Investigate For a small paired dataset, does the randomized test approach an independently enumerated exact null distribution?

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Posterior and Prior Predictive Checks

Stan User's Guide / Stan Development Team

A guide to prior and posterior predictive checks that compare replicated-data summaries with chosen aspects of observed data.

Investigate Which discrepancies detect a known tail-shape mismatch that a mean-only predictive check misses?

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Quasi-Monte Carlo

SciPy documentation

A guide to quasi-Monte Carlo sampling, discrepancy, scrambling and practical use of sampling engines.

Investigate How does scrambled low-discrepancy sampling compare with independent random sampling on bounded smooth and discontinuous integrands?

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Reparameterization and Change of Variables

Stan User's Guide / Stan Development Team

A guide distinguishing reparameterizations from changes of variables and explaining when log-Jacobian adjustments are required.

Investigate Does a transformed one-dimensional density normalize correctly and recover known moments with the required Jacobian?

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Signal Processing (scipy.signal)

SciPy documentation

A signal-processing guide covering convolution, filtering, spectral estimation and short-time Fourier transforms.

Investigate How do window and padding choices affect recovered amplitude and spectral leakage for a known multitone signal?

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Simulation-Based Calibration Checking

Stan User's Guide / Stan Development Team

A guide to checking Bayesian inference algorithms by simulating parameters and datasets from a model and examining posterior ranks or coverage.

Investigate Can a deliberately biased posterior sampler be distinguished from an exact conjugate sampler by a prespecified rank-uniformity diagnostic?

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Sparse eigenvalue problems with ARPACK

SciPy documentation

A tutorial on extracting a few eigenpairs from sparse operators, including shift-invert mode and matrix-free interfaces.

Investigate How do the requested spectrum region and tolerance affect convergence and residuals for a sparse matrix with known eigenvalues?

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Spatial Data Structures and Algorithms (scipy.spatial)

SciPy documentation

A computational-geometry reference covering Delaunay triangulations, convex hulls, Voronoi structures and degenerate point configurations.

Investigate Which geometric invariants remain valid when the input contains duplicates or nearly coplanar points?

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Time Series Analysis by State Space Methods statespace

statsmodels documentation

A state-space modeling guide covering filtering, smoothing, latent-state uncertainty, time-series models and residual diagnostics.

Investigate Can a small linear-Gaussian model recover known Kalman-filter states and covariances under missing observations?

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