EconML Files

This is a major update to EconML, with new features, support for updated versions of our dependencies, and several bugfixes.

What's Changed

New features

• DRLearner now supports sample trimming. PR by @kbattocchi in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1021
• EconML supports updated versions of our dependencies; in particular sklearn versions 1.7, 1.8, and 1.9 are supported! This was the work of several people across a number of commits: @kbattocchi in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1017 and https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1047 (incorporating an idea proposed by @genrichez in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1046), @justinchen033 in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1031, and @immu4989 in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1042
• The MultiModelWrapper utility class has been extended to handle the scenarios formerly handled by the SeparateModel utility class; now SeparateModel has been deprecated. PR by @kbattocchi in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1039

Bug fixes

• Set include_bias correctly in docs by @kbattocchi in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1013
• Fix Equation Typo by @HinnyTsang in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1015
• Make the intent-to-treat terminology clearer by @joonro in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1020
• Fix off-by-one in score_nuisances for discrete treatments (closes [#1006]) by @immu4989 in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1029
• Fix drtester dataframe by @michaelellis003 in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1025

Infrastructure and engineering improvements

• Update data and documentation locations by @kbattocchi in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/994
• Update lkg by @kbattocchi in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1003
• Fix subtests to work with pytest 9 by @kbattocchi in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1014
• Enable cibuildwheel 3.x by @kbattocchi in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1022
• Add liveness probe for OpenML in notebook tests to handle API downtime by @kbattocchi in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1033
• Fix flaky tests by @kbattocchi in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1034
• Lazily import modules by @kbattocchi in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1026
• Add conservative dependency lower bounds and drop now-dead sklearn compat branches by @kbattocchi in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1049

New Contributors

• @HinnyTsang made their first contribution in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1015
• @joonro made their first contribution in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1020
• @immu4989 made their first contribution in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1029
• @michaelellis003 made their first contribution in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1025
• @justinchen033 made their first contribution in https://github.com/py-why/EconML/pull/1031

Full Changelog: https://github.com/py-why/EconML/compare/v0.16.0...v0.17.0