inteq: a package to solve integral equations

[mwt]

Submitting Author: Name (@mwt)
Package Name: inteq One-Line Description of Package: Solve Fredholm and Volterra integral equations in python. Repository Link (if existing): https://github.com/mwt/inteq/

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Description

Inteq is a Python package that efficiently constructs numerical approximations of Fredholm and Volterra integral equations. Despite the wide interdisciplinary applicability of these integral forms, there is currently no pre-built solution for solving them. Existing solutions are typically purpose built by practitioners for specific problems and are not public.

Scope

• Please indicate which category or categories this package falls under:

  • [ ] Data retrieval
  • [ ] Data extraction
  • [ ] Data munging
  • [ ] Data deposition
  • [ ] Data visualization
  • [ ] Reproducibility
  • [ ] Geospatial
  • [ ] Education
  • [x] Unsure/Other (explain below)

• Explain how the and why the package falls under these categories (briefly, 1-2 sentences). Please note any areas you are unsure of:

• Who is the target audience and what are scientific applications of this package?

Practitioners in fluid dynamics, signal processing, physics, computer graphics, actuarial science, and economics.

• Are there other Python packages that accomplish the same thing? If so, how does yours differ?

No

• Any other questions or issues we should be aware of?:

My package can be used as part of an estimation process (eg. maximum likelihood). However, it is designed to be more foundational than this. So, it does not directly analyze data sets. It is used in research on the theory of auctions. Do you have a good category for this, or is something like this outside of your scope?

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[lwasser]

hi there @mwt . thank you for this pre-submission. This submission unfortunately currently does not fall into the in scope categories for pyOpenSci. You may want to consider JOSS as an option. Before doing so, I suggest that you consider adding testing to complete the package infrastructure or atleast look to see what the requirements are for JOSS publication. Please let us know if you have any questions

[lwasser]

@mwt one more note - if this package is already associated with a published paper, then JOSS will not accept it. But you can check with them as I am not the final word on JOSS submissions. they typically will not publish a package that has already been published via a citable paper

[lwasser]

i am going to close this issue given no feedback since July 6. Please feel free to reopen it @mwt if you have questions!