Microarviz

New features

* Add new convenience function `arviz.extract_dataset` ([1725](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1725))
* Add `combine_dims` argument to several functions ([1676](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1676))
* [experimental] Enable dask chunking information to be passed to `InferenceData.from_netcdf` with regex support ([1749](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1749))
* Allow kwargs to customize appearance of the mean in `plot_lm`
* Add dict option to `from_cmdstan` log_likelihood parameter (as in `from_pystan`)
* Unify model comparison API. Both `plot_compare`, `plot_elpd` can now take dicts of InferenceData or ELPDData ([1690](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1690))
* Change default for rcParam `stats.ic_pointwise` to True ([1690](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1690))
* Add new plot type: plot_ecdf ([1753](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1753))


Maintenance and fixes
* Drop Python 3.6 support ([1430](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1430))
* Bokeh 3 compatibility. ([1919](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1919))
* Remove manual setting of 2d KDE limits ([1939](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1939))
* Pin to bokeh<3 version ([1954](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1954))
* Fix legend labels in plot_ppc to reflect prior or posterior. ([1967](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1967))
* Change `DataFrame.append` to `pandas.concat` ([1973](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1973))
* Fix axis sharing behaviour in `plot_pair`. ([1985](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1985))
* Fix parameter duplication problem with PyStan ([1962](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1962))
* Temporarily disable pyjags tests ([1963](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1963))
* Fix tuple bug in coords ([1695](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1695))
* Fix extend 'right' join bug ([1718](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1718))
* Update attribute handling for InferenceData ([1357](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1357))
* Fix R2 implementation ([1666](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1666))
* Added warning message in `plot_dist_comparison()` in case subplots go over the limit ([1688](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1688))
* Fix coord value ignoring for default dims ([2001](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2001))
* Fixed plot_posterior with boolean data ([1707](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1707))
* Fix min_ess usage in plot_ess ([2002](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2002))

Deprecation

Documentation
* Fixed typo in `Forestplot` documentation
* Restructured contributing section and added several new pages to help contributing to docs ([1903](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1903))

Maintenance and fixes
* Fix standard deviation code in density utils by replacing it with `np.std`. ([1833](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1833))

New features
* Change order of regularization in `psislw` ([1943](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1943))
* Added `labeller` argument to enable label customization in plots and summary ([1201](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1201))
* Added `arviz.labels` module with classes and utilities ([1201](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1201) and [1605](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1605))
* Added probability estimate within ROPE in `plot_posterior` ([1570](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1570))
* Added `rope_color` and `ref_val_color` arguments to `plot_posterior` ([1570](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1570))
* Improved retrieving or pointwise log likelihood in `from_cmdstanpy`, `from_cmdstan` and `from_pystan` ([1579](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1579) and [1599](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1599))
* Added interactive legend to bokeh `forestplot` ([1591](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1591))
* Added interactive legend to bokeh `ppcplot` ([1602](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1602))
* Add more helpful error message for HDF5 problems reading `InferenceData` from NetCDF ([1637](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1637))
* Added `data.log_likelihood`, `stats.ic_compare_method` and `plot.density_kind` to `rcParams` ([1611](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1611))
* Improve error messages in `stats.compare()`, and `var_name` parameter. ([1616](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1616))
* Added ability to plot HDI contours to `plot_kde` with the new `hdi_probs` parameter. ([1665](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1665))
* Add dtype parsing and setting in all Stan converters ([1632](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1632))
* Add option to specify colors for each element in ppc_plot ([1769](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1769))

Maintenance and fixes
* Fix conversion for numpyro models with ImproperUniform latent sites ([1713](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1713))
* Fixed conversion of Pyro output fit using GPUs ([1659](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1659))
* Enforced using coordinate values as default labels ([1201](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1201))
* Integrate `index_origin` with all the library ([1201](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1201))
* Fix pareto k threshold typo in reloo function ([1580](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1580))
* Preserve shape from Stan code in `from_cmdstanpy` ([1579](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1579))
* Updated `from_pystan` converters to follow schema convention ([1585](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1585)
* Used generator instead of list wherever possible ([1588](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1588))
* Correctly use chain index when constructing PyMC3 `DefaultTrace` in `from_pymc3` ([1590](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1590))
* Fix bugs in CmdStanPyConverter ([1595](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1595) and [1598](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1598))
* Fix `c` argument in `plot_khat` ([1592](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1592))
* Fix `ax` argument in `plot_elpd` ([1593](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1593))
* Remove warning in `stats.py` compare function ([1607](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1607))
* Fix `ess/rhat` plots in `plot_forest` ([1606](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1606))
* Fix `from_numpyro` crash when importing model with `thinning=x` for `x > 1` ([1619](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1619))
* Upload updated mypy.ini in ci if mypy copilot fails ([1624](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1624))
* Added type checking to raise an error whenever `InferenceData` object is passed using `io_pymc3`'s `trace` argument ([1629](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1629))
* Fix `xlabels` in `plot_elpd` ([1601](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1601))
* Renamed `sample` dim to `__sample__` when stacking `chain` and `draw` to avoid dimension collision ([1647](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1647))
* Removed the `circular` argument in `plot_dist` in favor of `is_circular` ([1681](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1681))
* Fix `legend` argument in `plot_separation` ([1701](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1701))
* Removed testing dependency on http download for radon dataset ([1717](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1717))
* Fixed plot_kde to take labels with kwargs. ([1710](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1710))
* Fixed xarray related tests. ([1726](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1726))
* Fix Bokeh deprecation warnings ([1657](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1657))
* Fix credible inteval percentage in legend in `plot_loo_pit` ([1745](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1745))
* Arguments `filter_vars` and `filter_groups` now raise `ValueError` if illegal arguments are passed ([1772](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1772))
* Remove constrained_layout from arviz rcparams ([1764](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1764))
* Fix plot_elpd for a single outlier ([1787](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1787))

Deprecation
* Deprecated `index_origin` and `order` arguments in `az.summary` ([1201](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1201))

Documentation
* Language improvements of the first third of the "Label guide" ([1699](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1699))
* Added "Label guide" page and API section for `arviz.labels` module ([1201](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1201) and [1635](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1635))
* Add "Installation guide" page to the documentation ([1551](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1551))
* Improve documentation on experimental `SamplingWrapper` classes ([1582](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1582))
* Added example to `plot_hdi` using Inference Data ([1615](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1615))
* Removed `geweke` diagnostic from `numba` user guide ([1653](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1653))
* Restructured the documentation sections to improve community and about us information ([1587](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1587))

New features
* Added `to_zarr` and `from_zarr` methods to InferenceData ([1518](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1518))
* Added confidence interval band to auto-correlation plot ([1535](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1535))

Maintenance and fixes
* Updated CmdStanPy converter form compatibility with versions >=0.9.68 ([1558](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1558) and ([1564](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1564))
* Updated `from_cmdstanpy`, `from_cmdstan`, `from_numpyro` and `from_pymc3` converters to follow schema convention ([1550](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1550), [1541](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1541), [1525](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1525) and [1555](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1555))
* Fix calculation of mode as point estimate ([1552](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1552))
* Remove variable name from legend in posterior predictive plot ([1559](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1559))
* Added significant digits formatter to round rope values ([1569](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1569))
* Updated `from_cmdstan`. csv reader, dtype problem fixed and dtype kwarg added for manual dtype casting ([1565](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1565))

Deprecation
* Removed Geweke diagnostic ([1545](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1545))
* Removed credible_interval and include_circ arguments ([1548](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1548))

Documentation
* Added an example for converting dataframe to InferenceData ([1556](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1556))
* Added example for `coords` argument in `plot_posterior` docstring ([1566](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1566))

Maintenance and fixes
* Fixed ovelapping titles and repeating warnings on circular traceplot ([1517](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1517))
* Removed repetitive variable names from forest plots of multivariate variables ([1527](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1527))
* Fixed regression in `plot_pair` labels that prevented coord names to be shown when necessary ([1533](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1533))

Documentation
* Use tabs in ArviZ example gallery ([1521](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1521))

New features
* Added `to_dataframe` method to InferenceData ([1395](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1395))
* Added `__getitem__` magic to InferenceData ([1395](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1395))
* Added group argument to summary ([1408](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1408))
* Add `ref_line`, `bar`, `vlines` and `marker_vlines` kwargs to `plot_rank` ([1419](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1419))
* Add observed argument to (un)plot observed data in `plot_ppc` ([1422](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1422))
* Add support for named dims and coordinates with multivariate observations ([1429](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1429))
* Add support for discrete variables in rank plots ([1433](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1433)) and
`loo_pit` ([1500](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1500))
* Add `skipna` argument to `plot_posterior` ([1432](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1432))
* Make stacking the default method to compute weights in `compare` ([1438](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1438))
* Add `copy()` method to `InferenceData` class. ([1501](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1501)).


Maintenance and fixes
* prevent wrapping group names in InferenceData repr_html ([1407](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1407))
* Updated CmdStanPy interface ([1409](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1409))
* Remove left out warning about default IC scale in `compare` ([1412](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1412))
* Fixed a typo found in an error message raised in `distplot.py` ([1414](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1414))
* Fix typo in `loo_pit` extraction of log likelihood ([1418](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1418))
* Have `from_pystan` store attrs as strings to allow netCDF storage ([1417](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1417))
* Remove ticks and spines in `plot_violin` ([1426 ](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1426))
* Use circular KDE function and fix tick labels in circular `plot_trace` ([1428](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1428))
* Fix `pair_plot` for mixed discrete and continuous variables ([1434](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1434))
* Fix in-sample deviance in `plot_compare` ([1435](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1435))
* Fix computation of weights in compare ([1438](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1438))
* Avoid repeated warning in summary ([1442](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1442))
* Fix hdi failure with boolean array ([1444](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1444))
* Automatically get the current axes instance for `plt_kde`, `plot_dist` and `plot_hdi` ([1452](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1452))
* Add grid argument to manually specify the number of rows and columns ([1459](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1459))
* Switch to `compact=True` by default in our plots ([1468](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/issues/1468))
* `plot_elpd`, avoid modifying the input dict ([1477](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/issues/1477))
* Do not plot divergences in `plot_trace` when `kind=rank_vlines` or `kind=rank_bars` ([1476](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/issues/1476))
* Allow ignoring `observed` argument of `pymc3.DensityDist` in `from_pymc3` ([1495](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1495))
* Make `from_pymc3` compatible with theano-pymc 1.1.0 ([1495](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1495))
* Improve typing hints ([1491](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1491), ([1492](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1492),
([1493](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1493), ([1494](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1494) and
([1497](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1497))


Deprecation
* `plot_khat` deprecate `annotate` argument in favor of `threshold`. The new argument accepts floats ([1478](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/issues/1478))

Documentation
* Reorganize documentation and change sphinx theme ([1406](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1406))
* Switch to [MyST](https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and [MyST-NB](https://myst-nb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)
for markdown/notebook parsing in docs ([1406](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1406))
* Incorporated `input_core_dims` in `hdi` and `plot_hdi` docstrings ([1410](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1410))
* Add documentation pages about experimental `SamplingWrapper`s usage ([1373](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1373))
* Show example titles in gallery page ([1484](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1484))
* Add `sample_stats` naming convention to the InferenceData schema ([1063](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1063))
* Extend api documentation about `InferenceData` methods ([1338](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1338))

Experimental
* Modified `SamplingWrapper` base API ([1373](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/1373))