Metadata-Version: 2.0
Name: lifelines
Version: 0.14.2
Summary: Survival analysis in Python, including Kaplan Meier, Nelson Aalen and regression
Home-page: https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/lifelines
Author: Cameron Davidson-Pilon, Jonas Kalderstam
Author-email: cam.davidson.pilon@gmail.com
License: MIT
Description-Content-Type: UNKNOWN
Keywords: survival analysis statistics data analysis
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering
Requires-Dist: numpy
Requires-Dist: scipy
Requires-Dist: pandas (>=0.18)

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`What is survival analysis and why should I learn
it? <http://lifelines.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Survival%20Analysis%20intro.html>`__
Survival analysis was originally developed and applied heavily by the
actuarial and medical community. Its purpose was to answer *why do
events occur now versus later* under uncertainty (where *events* might
refer to deaths, disease remission, etc.). This is great for researchers
who are interested in measuring lifetimes: they can answer questions
like *what factors might influence deaths?*

But outside of medicine and actuarial science, there are many other
interesting and exciting applications of this lesser-known technique,
for example: - SaaS providers are interested in measuring customer
lifetimes, or time to first behaviours - sociologists are interested in
measuring political parties' lifetimes, or relationships, or marriages -
analysing `Godwin's
law <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lukashalim/GODWIN/master/Kaplan-Meier-Godwin.png>`__
in Reddit comments - A/B tests to determine how long it takes different
groups to perform an action.

*lifelines* is a pure Python implementation of the best parts of
survival analysis. We'd love to hear if you are using *lifelines*,
please leave an Issue and let us know your thoughts on the library.

Installation:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dependencies:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The usual Python data stack: NumPy, SciPy, Pandas (a modern version
please). Matplotlib is optional (as of 0.6.0+).

Installing
^^^^^^^^^^

You can install *lifelines* using

::

       pip install lifelines

Or getting the bleeding edge version with:

::

       pip install --upgrade --no-deps git+https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/lifelines.git

from the command line.

Installation Issues?
''''''''''''''''''''

See the common `problems/solutions for installing
lifelines <https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/lifelines/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=label%3Ainstallation+>`__.

Running the tests
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You can optionally run the test suite after install with

::

    py.test

lifelines Documentation and an intro to survival analysis
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If you are new to survival analysis, wondering why it is useful, or are
interested in *lifelines* examples and syntax, please check out the
`Documentation and Tutorials
page <http://lifelines.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html>`__

Contacting
~~~~~~~~~~

There is a `Gitter <https://gitter.im/python-lifelines/>`__ channel
available. The main author, Cam Davidson-Pilon, is also available for
contact on email and twitter.

Citing lifelines
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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the latest related version of lifelines:

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