CentreForDigitalHumanities / CentreForDigitalHumanities/programming-in-python

Python is a bit under-equipped for statistical modeling

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One of the course participants was trying to fit a linear mixed effects model with two levels of grouping. [`statsmodels.MixedLM`](https://www.statsmodels.org/stable/generated/statsmodels.regression.mixed_linear_model.MixedLM.html#statsmodels.regression.mixed_linear_model.MixedLM) does not support this. You can interface with R packages that provide this functionality through [pymer4](https://eshinjolly.com/pymer4/), but installing that in a Jupyter notebook is nontrivial because it also involves installing the dependent R packages.

Take home point: you can do statistical modeling in Python, but if your use case is somewhat advanced, you are probably better off using something more special-purpose such as R. We should add this as a note to the statistical modeling section in the tips.

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