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Installing kinesis

There are three major dependencies for kinesis:

• pystan2

• astropy

• arviz

The core functionality of kinesis depends on pystan2, which provides python interface to stan. Pystan requires C++ compiler: please consult Pystan2 documentation if you have any issues to get it up and running. It is always good to check that your installation of pystan works as expected with, for example, the “eight schools” example available on this page.

Note

Pystan recently moved on to develop pystan3 but kinesis still requires pystan2 interface.

Additionally, you need astropy>=3.0 with velocity support in astropy.coordinates. I would generally recommend a sensible latest release of astropy as it is now on version 4.0.

Finally, we will use arviz for analyzing the fits.