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# What is pyerrors?
`pyerrors` is a python package for error computation and propagation of Markov chain Monte Carlo data.
It is based on the **gamma method** [arXiv:hep-lat/0306017](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0306017). Some of its features are:
- **automatic differentiation** as suggested in [arXiv:1809.01289](https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01289) (partly based on the [autograd](https://github.com/HIPS/autograd) package)
- **treatment of slow modes** in the simulation as suggested in [arXiv:1009.5228](https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5228)
- coherent **error propagation** for data from **different Markov chains**
- **non-linear fits with x- and y-errors** and exact linear error propagation based on automatic differentiation as introduced in [arXiv:1809.01289]
- **real and complex matrix operations** and their error propagation based on automatic differentiation (cholesky decomposition, calculation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors, singular value decomposition...)
## Getting started