Add the missing transforms to bring parity with patsy / R.

[matthewwardrop]

Formulaic's support for stateful transforms is underutilised. Over the coming couple of weeks I'll be adding support in for the missing transforms, aiming to be compatible with patsy and R implementations.

• C: Add support for custom contrast matrices, etc. (PR Add full support for contrasts to Formulaic #70)
• scale: Center and rescale for mean = 0 and stddev = 1
• poly: Polynomial basis (PR Add support for the poly transform. #44)
• bs : B-Spline basis (PR Add basis_spline stateful transform. #21)
• cr : cubic spline basis
• cc : cyclic cubic spline basis
• te : tensor product smooth

[lorentzenchr]

Is the above list up to date? I'm curious if I could be of any help.

[matthewwardrop]

Hi @lorentzenchr !

Obviously I didn't get to this in the timeline intimated. COVID has led to some changes in various trajectories, including with me heading back to Australia (a big transition given I have four kids). My plan is still to get to this, but you can feel free to explore implementing cr, cc and te if you are interested. I am far more opinionated about the implementation of C.

Note that it was my intention to write these from scratch after learning the mathematics behind them, as I did the others. This allowed me to write things with high performance in mind, and avoid copyright issues.

[lorentzenchr]

Hope you and your family are fine.
In my opinion, C is the most important of all. I'll have a look at the spline basis, let's see.

[lorentzenchr]

I'd be interested in your opinions about C.

[matthewwardrop]

Hi @lorentzenchr ; sorry... lost the thread here a bit. I've implemented support for different contrast matrices now in #70. Feel free to take a look :).