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Every work cited in this documentation or in the docstrings of the code, in alphabetical order. Each DOI was checked against the Crossref registry when this page was written; entries marked no DOI are books, reports or articles that have none (checked the same way). No retraction or correction notice is attached to any DOI added for versions 0.2 and 0.3 in the Crossref registry.

Citations in the API reference name the method's source; the formulas shown are those the code evaluates, which for a few methods carry implementation choices stated on the page.

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