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<h1>pyFTS - Fuzzy Time Series for Python<a class="headerlink" href="#pyfts-fuzzy-time-series-for-python" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<h2>What is pyFTS Library?<a class="headerlink" href="#what-is-pyfts-library" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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        <span id="forkongithub"><a href="https://github.com/PYFTS/pyFTS">Fork me on GitHub</a></span><p>This package is intended for students, researchers, data scientists or whose want to exploit the Fuzzy Time Series methods. These methods provide simple, easy to use, computationally cheap and human-readable models, suitable from statistic laymans to experts.</p>
<p>This tool is developed on <a class="reference external" href="http://www.minds.eng.ufmg.br/">MINDS Lab</a>,
headed by Prof. Frederico Gadelha Guimarães from <a class="reference external" href="https://www.ppgee.ufmg.br/">Electrical
Engineering Departament</a> of <a class="reference external" href="https://ufmg.br/">Federal University
of Minas Gerais (UFMG)</a> at Brazil. Also colaborate
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<p>Silva, P. C. L. et al. <em>pyFTS: Fuzzy Time Series for Python.</em> Belo Horizonte. 2018. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.597359. Url: &lt;<a class="reference external" href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.597359">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.597359</a>&gt;</p>
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