.. _about:

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About
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Authors
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DABEST is written in Python by `Joses W. Ho <https://twitter.com/jacuzzijo>`_, with design and input from `Adam Claridge-Chang <https://twitter.com/adamcchang>`_ and other `lab members <https://www.claridgechang.net/people.html>`__.

Additional features in v2023.02.14 were added by `Yixuan Li <https://github.com/LI-Yixuan>`_, `Zinan Lu <https://github.com/Jacobluke->`_ and `Rou Zhang <https://github.com/ZHANGROU-99>`_.

To find out more about the authors’ research, please visit the `Claridge-Chang lab webpage <http://www.claridgechang.net/>`_.

Contributors
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- Statistics supervision by Hyungwon Choi

- Alpha testers from the Claridge-Chang lab: `Sangyu Xu <https://github.com/sangyu>`_, `Xianyuan Zhang <https://github.com/XYZfar>`_, `Farhan Mohammad <https://github.com/farhan8igib>`_, Jurga Mituzaitė, Stanislav Ott, Tayfun Tumkaya, Jonathan Anns, Nicole Lee and Yishan Mai.

- DizietAsahi (`DizietAsahi <https://github.com/DizietAsahi>`_) with `PR #86 <https://github.com/ACCLAB/DABEST-python/pull/86>`_:  Fix bugs in slopegraph and reference line keyword parsing.

- Adam Li (`@adam2392 <https://github.com/adam2392>`_) with `PR #85 <https://github.com/ACCLAB/DABEST-python/pull/85>`_:  Implement `Lq-Likelihood-Ratio-Type Test <https://github.com/alyakin314/lqrt>`_ in statistical output.

- Mason Malone (`@MasonM <https://github.com/MasonM>`_) with `PR #30 <https://github.com/ACCLAB/DABEST-python/pull/30>`_:  Fix plot error when effect size is 0.

- Matthew Edwards (`@mje-nz <https://github.com/mje-nz>`_) with `PR #71 <https://github.com/ACCLAB/DABEST-python/pull/30>`_: Specify dependencies correctly in ``setup.py``. 

- Adam Nekimken (`@anekimken <https://github.com/anekimken>`_) with `PR #73 <https://github.com/ACCLAB/DABEST-python/pull/73>`_: Implement inset axes so estimation plots can be plotted on a pre-determined :py:mod:`matplotlib` :py:class:`Axes` object.



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This documentation uses `Spectral <https://spectral.prototypo.io/>`_ for the body text, `Merriweather Sans <https://ebensorkin.wordpress.com/>`_ for the side bar and titles, and `IBM Plex Mono <https://github.com/IBM/plex>`_ for the monospace code font.


License
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The DABEST package in Python is licenced under the `BSD 3-clause Clear License <https://choosealicense.com/licenses/bsd-3-clause-clear/>`_.

Copyright (c) 2016-2023, Joses W. Ho
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