Installation Instructions

parmest is included in Pyomo (pyomo/contrib/parmest). To run parmest, you will need Python version 3.x along with various Python package dependencies and the IPOPT software library for non-linear optimization.

Python Package Dependencies

1. Install NumPy and Pandas with your preferred package manager; both NumPy and SciPy are required dependencies of parmest. You may install NumPy and Pandas with, for example, conda:

   conda install numpy pandas
   

   or pip:

   pip install numpy pandas
   

2. Install Pyomo. parmest is included in the Pyomo software package, at pyomo/contrib/parmest.

3. (Optional) Install matplotlib and scipy:

   pip install scipy matplotlib
   

4. (Optional) Install seaborn

   pip install seaborn
   

IPOPT

The IPOPT project homepage is https://github.com/coin-or/Ipopt

Testing

The following commands can be used to test parmest:

cd pyomo/contrib/parmest/tests
python test_parmest.py