Design notes ============ Decisions made during development, with the reasons and the alternatives considered. Each note has the same parts: the decision, why, the alternatives, and where it lives in the code. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 principles diffuse_initialization cycle_initialization output_coordinates missing_data steady_state estimation performance interfaces The differences from statsmodels that follow from these decisions are listed in :doc:`../statsmodels_differences`.