Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PyMC3


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The result was no consensus. &mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 04:21, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

PyMC3

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Non-notable. The only reference covering it in any depth was written by the creators of the software. No evidence that any third party has taken such an interest in it. Anyone can upload some math routines to Github and write about them. It needs much more than this for a software package to be notable. JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 19:51, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

I can add more references, if that is needed. Some of them could be:


 * Scientific publications https://scholar.google.de/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&authuser=1&cites=6936955228135731011
 * Books: https://www.amazon.com/Bayesian-Methods-Hackers-Probabilistic-Addison-Wesley/dp/0133902838 or https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/bayesian-analysis-python
 * The project is sponsored by NumFocus http://www.numfocus.org/open-source-projects.html
 * Technical reports http://blog.fastforwardlabs.com/2017/01/11/thomas-wiecki-on-probabilistic-programming-with.html

There is a similar page for a similar software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_(software) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aloctavodia (talk • contribs) 20:03, 22 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Per WP:WHATABOUTX, what other articles there are is irrelevant. It is always the case there are other similar articles, given the size and scope of WP. Each article is to be considered on its own merits, to stop discussions being sidetracked by arguments over other articles.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 20:12, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

There is also other software based on PyMC3.

Bambi: BAyesian Model-Building Interface (BAMBI) in Python. NiPyMC: Bayesian mixed-effects modeling of fMRI data in Python. gelato: Bayesian Neural Networks with PyMC3 and Lasagne. beat: Bayesian Earthquake Analysis Tool. Edward: A library for probabilistic modeling, inference, and criticism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aloctavodia (talk • contribs) 20:15, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

> No evidence that any third party has taken such an interest in it.

Speaking as s statistician who did not write pymc3 and yet uses it, this particular assertion seems questionable - there are many blog posts using it, more than 200 stackoverflow questions about it, hundreds of academic articles written using it, heavy and sustained source code contribution and so on. If it were a university professor, its publication record would be likely above-the-median.

It is, however, used for machine-learning and statistics, which might contribute to the perception that it is obscure amongst people outside those fields. --Livingthingdan (talk) 23:16, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Dialectric (talk) 17:58, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. North America1000 04:34, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 04:34, 1 March 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete Only primary sources. Clearly fails WP:PRODUCT. GeoffreyT2000  ( talk,  contribs ) 00:36, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kurykh (talk) 01:21, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

I have added new sources to the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aloctavodia (talk • contribs) 17:05, 11 March 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 11:23, 17 March 2017 (UTC)


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