causal_agent.methods.difference_in_differences package

Submodules

causal_agent.methods.difference_in_differences.diagnostics module

Diagnostic functions for Difference-in-Differences method.

Validates the parallel trends assumption using pre-treatment data.

Regresses the outcome on group-specific time trends before the treatment period. Tests if the interaction terms between group and pre-treatment time periods are jointly significant.

Parameters:

  • df (DataFrame) – DataFrame containing the data.

  • time_var (str) – Name of the time variable column.

  • outcome (str) – Name of the outcome variable column.

  • group_indicator_col (str) – Name of the binary treatment group indicator column (0/1).

  • treatment_period_start (Any) – The time period value when treatment starts.

  • dataset_description (str | None) – Optional dictionary for additional dataset description.

  • time_varying_covariates (List[str] | None) – Optional list of time-varying covariates to include.

Returns:

Dictionary with validation results.

Return type:

Dict[str, Any]

Simple visual assessment of parallel trends by comparing group means over time.

This is a fallback method when statistical tests fail.

causal_agent.methods.difference_in_differences.diagnostics.run_placebo_test(df, time_var, group_var, outcome, treated_unit_indicator, covariates, treatment_period_start, placebo_period_start)[source]

Runs a placebo test for DiD by assigning a fake earlier treatment period.

Re-runs the DiD estimation using the placebo period and checks if the effect is non-significant.

Parameters:

  • df (DataFrame) – Original DataFrame.

  • time_var (str) – Name of the time variable column.

  • group_var (str) – Name of the unit/group ID column (for clustering SE).

  • outcome (str) – Name of the outcome variable column.

  • treated_unit_indicator (str) – Name of the binary treatment group indicator column (0/1).

  • covariates (List[str]) – List of covariate names.

  • treatment_period_start (Any) – The actual treatment start period.

  • placebo_period_start (Any) – The fake treatment start period (must be before actual start).

Returns:

Dictionary with placebo test results.

Return type:

Dict[str, Any]

causal_agent.methods.difference_in_differences.estimator module

Difference-in-Differences Estimator using DoWhy with Statsmodels fallback.

causal_agent.methods.difference_in_differences.estimator.format_did_results(statsmodels_results, interaction_term_key, validation_results, method_details, parameters)[source]

Formats the DiD results from statsmodels results into a standard dictionary.

causal_agent.methods.difference_in_differences.estimator.estimate_effect(df, treatment, outcome, covariates, dataset_description=None, query=None, **kwargs)[source]

Difference-in-Differences estimation using DoWhy with Statsmodels fallback.

Parameters:

  • df (DataFrame) – Dataset containing causal variables

  • treatment (str) – Name of treatment variable (or variable indicating treated group)

  • outcome (str) – Name of outcome variable

  • covariates (List[str]) – List of covariate names

  • dataset_description (str | None) – Optional dictionary describing the dataset

  • **kwargs – Method-specific parameters (e.g., time_var, group_var, query, llm instance if needed)

Returns:

Dictionary with effect estimate and diagnostics

Return type:

Dict[str, Any]

causal_agent.methods.difference_in_differences.llm_assist module

LLM Assist functions for Difference-in-Differences method.

class causal_agent.methods.difference_in_differences.llm_assist.LLMTimeVar(*, time_variable_name=None)[source]

Bases: BaseModel

time_variable_name: str | None
__copy__()

Returns a shallow copy of the model.

__deepcopy__(memo=None)

Returns a deep copy of the model.

classmethod __get_pydantic_json_schema__(core_schema, handler, /)

Hook into generating the model’s JSON schema.

Parameters:

  • core_schema (CoreSchema) – A pydantic-core CoreSchema. You can ignore this argument and call the handler with a new CoreSchema, wrap this CoreSchema ({‘type’: ‘nullable’, ‘schema’: current_schema}), or just call the handler with the original schema.

  • handler (GetJsonSchemaHandler) – Call into Pydantic’s internal JSON schema generation. This will raise a pydantic.errors.PydanticInvalidForJsonSchema if JSON schema generation fails. Since this gets called by BaseModel.model_json_schema you can override the schema_generator argument to that function to change JSON schema generation globally for a type.

Returns:

A JSON schema, as a Python object.

Return type:

JsonSchemaValue

__init__(**data)

Create a new model by parsing and validating input data from keyword arguments.

Raises [ValidationError][pydantic_core.ValidationError] if the input data cannot be validated to form a valid model.

self is explicitly positional-only to allow self as a field name.

__iter__()

So dict(model) works.

__pretty__(fmt, **kwargs)

Used by devtools (https://python-devtools.helpmanual.io/) to pretty print objects.

classmethod __pydantic_init_subclass__(**kwargs)

This is intended to behave just like __init_subclass__, but is called by ModelMetaclass only after basic class initialization is complete. In particular, attributes like model_fields will be present when this is called, but forward annotations are not guaranteed to be resolved yet, meaning that creating an instance of the class may fail.

This is necessary because __init_subclass__ will always be called by type.__new__, and it would require a prohibitively large refactor to the ModelMetaclass to ensure that type.__new__ was called in such a manner that the class would already be sufficiently initialized.

This will receive the same kwargs that would be passed to the standard __init_subclass__, namely, any kwargs passed to the class definition that aren’t used internally by Pydantic.

Parameters:

**kwargs (Any) – Any keyword arguments passed to the class definition that aren’t used internally by Pydantic.

Note

You may want to override [__pydantic_on_complete__()][pydantic.main.BaseModel.__pydantic_on_complete__] instead, which is called once the class and its fields are fully initialized and ready for validation.

classmethod __pydantic_on_complete__()

This is called once the class and its fields are fully initialized and ready to be used.

This typically happens when the class is created (just before [__pydantic_init_subclass__()][pydantic.main.BaseModel.__pydantic_init_subclass__] is called on the superclass), except when forward annotations are used that could not immediately be resolved. In that case, it will be called later, when the model is rebuilt automatically or explicitly using [model_rebuild()][pydantic.main.BaseModel.model_rebuild].

__repr_name__()

Name of the instance’s class, used in __repr__.

__repr_recursion__(object)

Returns the string representation of a recursive object.

__rich_repr__()

Used by Rich (https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/stable/pretty.html) to pretty print objects.

classmethod construct(_fields_set=None, **values)
copy(*, include=None, exclude=None, update=None, deep=False)

Returns a copy of the model.

!!! warning “Deprecated”

This method is now deprecated; use model_copy instead.

If you need include or exclude, use:

`python {test="skip" lint="skip"} data = self.model_dump(include=include, exclude=exclude, round_trip=True) data = {**data, **(update or {})} copied = self.model_validate(data) `

Parameters:

  • include (AbstractSetIntStr | MappingIntStrAny | None) – Optional set or mapping specifying which fields to include in the copied model.

  • exclude (AbstractSetIntStr | MappingIntStrAny | None) – Optional set or mapping specifying which fields to exclude in the copied model.

  • update (Dict[str, Any] | None) – Optional dictionary of field-value pairs to override field values in the copied model.

  • deep (bool) – If True, the values of fields that are Pydantic models will be deep-copied.

Returns:

A copy of the model with included, excluded and updated fields as specified.

Return type:

Self

dict(*, include=None, exclude=None, by_alias=False, exclude_unset=False, exclude_defaults=False, exclude_none=False)
classmethod from_orm(obj)
json(*, include=None, exclude=None, by_alias=False, exclude_unset=False, exclude_defaults=False, exclude_none=False, encoder=PydanticUndefined, models_as_dict=PydanticUndefined, **dumps_kwargs)
model_computed_fields = {}
model_config = {}

Configuration for the model, should be a dictionary conforming to [ConfigDict][pydantic.config.ConfigDict].

classmethod model_construct(_fields_set=None, **values)

Creates a new instance of the Model class with validated data.

Creates a new model setting __dict__ and __pydantic_fields_set__ from trusted or pre-validated data. Default values are respected, but no other validation is performed.

!!! note

model_construct() generally respects the model_config.extra setting on the provided model. That is, if model_config.extra == ‘allow’, then all extra passed values are added to the model instance’s __dict__ and __pydantic_extra__ fields. If model_config.extra == ‘ignore’ (the default), then all extra passed values are ignored. Because no validation is performed with a call to model_construct(), having model_config.extra == ‘forbid’ does not result in an error if extra values are passed, but they will be ignored.

Parameters:

  • _fields_set (set[str] | None) – A set of field names that were originally explicitly set during instantiation. If provided, this is directly used for the [model_fields_set][pydantic.BaseModel.model_fields_set] attribute. Otherwise, the field names from the values argument will be used.

  • values (Any) – Trusted or pre-validated data dictionary.

Returns:

A new instance of the Model class with validated data.

Return type:

Self

model_copy(*, update=None, deep=False)
!!! abstract “Usage Documentation”

[model_copy](../concepts/models.md#model-copy)

Returns a copy of the model.

!!! note

The underlying instance’s [__dict__][object.__dict__] attribute is copied. This might have unexpected side effects if you store anything in it, on top of the model fields (e.g. the value of [cached properties][functools.cached_property]).

Parameters:

  • update (Mapping[str, Any] | None) – Values to change/add in the new model. Note: the data is not validated before creating the new model. You should trust this data.

  • deep (bool) – Set to True to make a deep copy of the model.

Returns:

New model instance.

Return type:

Self

model_dump(*, mode='python', include=None, exclude=None, context=None, by_alias=None, exclude_unset=False, exclude_defaults=False, exclude_none=False, exclude_computed_fields=False, round_trip=False, warnings=True, fallback=None, serialize_as_any=False, polymorphic_serialization=None)
!!! abstract “Usage Documentation”

[model_dump](../concepts/serialization.md#python-mode)

Generate a dictionary representation of the model, optionally specifying which fields to include or exclude.

Parameters:

  • mode (Literal['json', 'python'] | str) – The mode in which to_python should run. If mode is ‘json’, the output will only contain JSON serializable types. If mode is ‘python’, the output may contain non-JSON-serializable Python objects.

  • include (set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | Mapping[str, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | None) – A set of fields to include in the output.

  • exclude (set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | Mapping[str, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | None) – A set of fields to exclude from the output.

  • context (Any | None) – Additional context to pass to the serializer.

  • by_alias (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s alias in the dictionary key if defined.

  • exclude_unset (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that have not been explicitly set.

  • exclude_defaults (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that are set to their default value.

  • exclude_none (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that have a value of None.

  • exclude_computed_fields (bool) – Whether to exclude computed fields. While this can be useful for round-tripping, it is usually recommended to use the dedicated round_trip parameter instead.

  • round_trip (bool) – If True, dumped values should be valid as input for non-idempotent types such as Json[T].

  • warnings (bool | Literal['none', 'warn', 'error']) – How to handle serialization errors. False/”none” ignores them, True/”warn” logs errors, “error” raises a [PydanticSerializationError][pydantic_core.PydanticSerializationError].

  • fallback (Callable[[Any], Any] | None) – A function to call when an unknown value is encountered. If not provided, a [PydanticSerializationError][pydantic_core.PydanticSerializationError] error is raised.

  • serialize_as_any (bool) – Whether to serialize fields with duck-typing serialization behavior.

  • polymorphic_serialization (bool | None) – Whether to use model and dataclass polymorphic serialization for this call.

Returns:

A dictionary representation of the model.

Return type:

dict[str, Any]

model_dump_json(*, indent=None, ensure_ascii=False, include=None, exclude=None, context=None, by_alias=None, exclude_unset=False, exclude_defaults=False, exclude_none=False, exclude_computed_fields=False, round_trip=False, warnings=True, fallback=None, serialize_as_any=False, polymorphic_serialization=None)
!!! abstract “Usage Documentation”

[model_dump_json](../concepts/serialization.md#json-mode)

Generates a JSON representation of the model using Pydantic’s to_json method.

Parameters:

  • indent (int | None) – Indentation to use in the JSON output. If None is passed, the output will be compact.

  • ensure_ascii (bool) – If True, the output is guaranteed to have all incoming non-ASCII characters escaped. If False (the default), these characters will be output as-is.

  • include (set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | Mapping[str, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | None) – Field(s) to include in the JSON output.

  • exclude (set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | Mapping[str, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | None) – Field(s) to exclude from the JSON output.

  • context (Any | None) – Additional context to pass to the serializer.

  • by_alias (bool | None) – Whether to serialize using field aliases.

  • exclude_unset (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that have not been explicitly set.

  • exclude_defaults (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that are set to their default value.

  • exclude_none (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that have a value of None.

  • exclude_computed_fields (bool) – Whether to exclude computed fields. While this can be useful for round-tripping, it is usually recommended to use the dedicated round_trip parameter instead.

  • round_trip (bool) – If True, dumped values should be valid as input for non-idempotent types such as Json[T].

  • warnings (bool | Literal['none', 'warn', 'error']) – How to handle serialization errors. False/”none” ignores them, True/”warn” logs errors, “error” raises a [PydanticSerializationError][pydantic_core.PydanticSerializationError].

  • fallback (Callable[[Any], Any] | None) – A function to call when an unknown value is encountered. If not provided, a [PydanticSerializationError][pydantic_core.PydanticSerializationError] error is raised.

  • serialize_as_any (bool) – Whether to serialize fields with duck-typing serialization behavior.

  • polymorphic_serialization (bool | None) – Whether to use model and dataclass polymorphic serialization for this call.

Returns:

A JSON string representation of the model.

Return type:

str

property model_extra: dict[str, Any] | None

Get extra fields set during validation.

Returns:

A dictionary of extra fields, or None if config.extra is not set to “allow”.

model_fields = {'time_variable_name': FieldInfo(annotation=Union[str, NoneType], required=False, default=None, description='The column name identified as the primary time variable.')}
property model_fields_set: set[str]

Returns the set of fields that have been explicitly set on this model instance.

Returns:

A set of strings representing the fields that have been set,

i.e. that were not filled from defaults.

classmethod model_json_schema(by_alias=True, ref_template=DEFAULT_REF_TEMPLATE, schema_generator=GenerateJsonSchema, mode='validation', *, union_format='any_of')

Generates a JSON schema for a model class.

Parameters:

  • by_alias (bool) – Whether to use attribute aliases or not.

  • ref_template (str) – The reference template.

  • union_format (Literal['any_of', 'primitive_type_array']) –

    The format to use when combining schemas from unions together. Can be one of:

    keyword to combine schemas (the default). - ‘primitive_type_array’: Use the [type](https://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/reference/type) keyword as an array of strings, containing each type of the combination. If any of the schemas is not a primitive type (string, boolean, null, integer or number) or contains constraints/metadata, falls back to any_of.

  • schema_generator (type[GenerateJsonSchema]) – To override the logic used to generate the JSON schema, as a subclass of GenerateJsonSchema with your desired modifications

  • mode (Literal['validation', 'serialization']) – The mode in which to generate the schema.

Returns:

The JSON schema for the given model class.

Return type:

dict[str, Any]

classmethod model_parametrized_name(params)

Compute the class name for parametrizations of generic classes.

This method can be overridden to achieve a custom naming scheme for generic BaseModels.

Parameters:

params (tuple[type[Any], ...]) – Tuple of types of the class. Given a generic class Model with 2 type variables and a concrete model Model[str, int], the value (str, int) would be passed to params.

Returns:

String representing the new class where params are passed to cls as type variables.

Raises:

TypeError – Raised when trying to generate concrete names for non-generic models.

Return type:

str

model_post_init(context, /)

Override this method to perform additional initialization after __init__ and model_construct. This is useful if you want to do some validation that requires the entire model to be initialized.

classmethod model_rebuild(*, force=False, raise_errors=True, _parent_namespace_depth=2, _types_namespace=None)

Try to rebuild the pydantic-core schema for the model.

This may be necessary when one of the annotations is a ForwardRef which could not be resolved during the initial attempt to build the schema, and automatic rebuilding fails.

Parameters:

  • force (bool) – Whether to force the rebuilding of the model schema, defaults to False.

  • raise_errors (bool) – Whether to raise errors, defaults to True.

  • _parent_namespace_depth (int) – The depth level of the parent namespace, defaults to 2.

  • _types_namespace (MappingNamespace | None) – The types namespace, defaults to None.

Returns:

Returns None if the schema is already “complete” and rebuilding was not required. If rebuilding _was_ required, returns True if rebuilding was successful, otherwise False.

Return type:

bool | None

classmethod model_validate(obj, *, strict=None, extra=None, from_attributes=None, context=None, by_alias=None, by_name=None)

Validate a pydantic model instance.

Parameters:

  • obj (Any) – The object to validate.

  • strict (bool | None) – Whether to enforce types strictly.

  • extra (Literal['allow', 'ignore', 'forbid'] | None) – Whether to ignore, allow, or forbid extra data during model validation. See the [extra configuration value][pydantic.ConfigDict.extra] for details.

  • from_attributes (bool | None) – Whether to extract data from object attributes.

  • context (Any | None) – Additional context to pass to the validator.

  • by_alias (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s alias when validating against the provided input data.

  • by_name (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s name when validating against the provided input data.

Raises:

ValidationError – If the object could not be validated.

Returns:

The validated model instance.

Return type:

Self

classmethod model_validate_json(json_data, *, strict=None, extra=None, context=None, by_alias=None, by_name=None)
!!! abstract “Usage Documentation”

[JSON Parsing](../concepts/json.md#json-parsing)

Validate the given JSON data against the Pydantic model.

Parameters:

  • json_data (str | bytes | bytearray) – The JSON data to validate.

  • strict (bool | None) – Whether to enforce types strictly.

  • extra (Literal['allow', 'ignore', 'forbid'] | None) – Whether to ignore, allow, or forbid extra data during model validation. See the [extra configuration value][pydantic.ConfigDict.extra] for details.

  • context (Any | None) – Extra variables to pass to the validator.

  • by_alias (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s alias when validating against the provided input data.

  • by_name (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s name when validating against the provided input data.

Returns:

The validated Pydantic model.

Raises:

ValidationError – If json_data is not a JSON string or the object could not be validated.

Return type:

Self

classmethod model_validate_strings(obj, *, strict=None, extra=None, context=None, by_alias=None, by_name=None)

Validate the given object with string data against the Pydantic model.

Parameters:

  • obj (Any) – The object containing string data to validate.

  • strict (bool | None) – Whether to enforce types strictly.

  • extra (Literal['allow', 'ignore', 'forbid'] | None) – Whether to ignore, allow, or forbid extra data during model validation. See the [extra configuration value][pydantic.ConfigDict.extra] for details.

  • context (Any | None) – Extra variables to pass to the validator.

  • by_alias (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s alias when validating against the provided input data.

  • by_name (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s name when validating against the provided input data.

Returns:

The validated Pydantic model.

Return type:

Self

classmethod parse_file(path, *, content_type=None, encoding='utf8', proto=None, allow_pickle=False)
classmethod parse_obj(obj)
classmethod parse_raw(b, *, content_type=None, encoding='utf8', proto=None, allow_pickle=False)
classmethod schema(by_alias=True, ref_template=DEFAULT_REF_TEMPLATE)
classmethod schema_json(*, by_alias=True, ref_template=DEFAULT_REF_TEMPLATE, **dumps_kwargs)
classmethod update_forward_refs(**localns)
classmethod validate(value)
causal_agent.methods.difference_in_differences.llm_assist.identify_time_variable(df, query=None, dataset_description=None, llm=None)[source]

Identifies the most likely time variable.

Current Implementation: Heuristic based on column names, with LLM fallback. Future: Refine LLM prompt and parsing.

class causal_agent.methods.difference_in_differences.llm_assist.LLMTreatmentPeriod(*, treatment_start_period=None)[source]

Bases: BaseModel

treatment_start_period: str | int | float | None
__copy__()

Returns a shallow copy of the model.

__deepcopy__(memo=None)

Returns a deep copy of the model.

classmethod __get_pydantic_json_schema__(core_schema, handler, /)

Hook into generating the model’s JSON schema.

Parameters:

  • core_schema (CoreSchema) – A pydantic-core CoreSchema. You can ignore this argument and call the handler with a new CoreSchema, wrap this CoreSchema ({‘type’: ‘nullable’, ‘schema’: current_schema}), or just call the handler with the original schema.

  • handler (GetJsonSchemaHandler) – Call into Pydantic’s internal JSON schema generation. This will raise a pydantic.errors.PydanticInvalidForJsonSchema if JSON schema generation fails. Since this gets called by BaseModel.model_json_schema you can override the schema_generator argument to that function to change JSON schema generation globally for a type.

Returns:

A JSON schema, as a Python object.

Return type:

JsonSchemaValue

__init__(**data)

Create a new model by parsing and validating input data from keyword arguments.

Raises [ValidationError][pydantic_core.ValidationError] if the input data cannot be validated to form a valid model.

self is explicitly positional-only to allow self as a field name.

__iter__()

So dict(model) works.

__pretty__(fmt, **kwargs)

Used by devtools (https://python-devtools.helpmanual.io/) to pretty print objects.

classmethod __pydantic_init_subclass__(**kwargs)

This is intended to behave just like __init_subclass__, but is called by ModelMetaclass only after basic class initialization is complete. In particular, attributes like model_fields will be present when this is called, but forward annotations are not guaranteed to be resolved yet, meaning that creating an instance of the class may fail.

This is necessary because __init_subclass__ will always be called by type.__new__, and it would require a prohibitively large refactor to the ModelMetaclass to ensure that type.__new__ was called in such a manner that the class would already be sufficiently initialized.

This will receive the same kwargs that would be passed to the standard __init_subclass__, namely, any kwargs passed to the class definition that aren’t used internally by Pydantic.

Parameters:

**kwargs (Any) – Any keyword arguments passed to the class definition that aren’t used internally by Pydantic.

Note

You may want to override [__pydantic_on_complete__()][pydantic.main.BaseModel.__pydantic_on_complete__] instead, which is called once the class and its fields are fully initialized and ready for validation.

classmethod __pydantic_on_complete__()

This is called once the class and its fields are fully initialized and ready to be used.

This typically happens when the class is created (just before [__pydantic_init_subclass__()][pydantic.main.BaseModel.__pydantic_init_subclass__] is called on the superclass), except when forward annotations are used that could not immediately be resolved. In that case, it will be called later, when the model is rebuilt automatically or explicitly using [model_rebuild()][pydantic.main.BaseModel.model_rebuild].

__repr_name__()

Name of the instance’s class, used in __repr__.

__repr_recursion__(object)

Returns the string representation of a recursive object.

__rich_repr__()

Used by Rich (https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/stable/pretty.html) to pretty print objects.

classmethod construct(_fields_set=None, **values)
copy(*, include=None, exclude=None, update=None, deep=False)

Returns a copy of the model.

!!! warning “Deprecated”

This method is now deprecated; use model_copy instead.

If you need include or exclude, use:

`python {test="skip" lint="skip"} data = self.model_dump(include=include, exclude=exclude, round_trip=True) data = {**data, **(update or {})} copied = self.model_validate(data) `

Parameters:

  • include (AbstractSetIntStr | MappingIntStrAny | None) – Optional set or mapping specifying which fields to include in the copied model.

  • exclude (AbstractSetIntStr | MappingIntStrAny | None) – Optional set or mapping specifying which fields to exclude in the copied model.

  • update (Dict[str, Any] | None) – Optional dictionary of field-value pairs to override field values in the copied model.

  • deep (bool) – If True, the values of fields that are Pydantic models will be deep-copied.

Returns:

A copy of the model with included, excluded and updated fields as specified.

Return type:

Self

dict(*, include=None, exclude=None, by_alias=False, exclude_unset=False, exclude_defaults=False, exclude_none=False)
classmethod from_orm(obj)
json(*, include=None, exclude=None, by_alias=False, exclude_unset=False, exclude_defaults=False, exclude_none=False, encoder=PydanticUndefined, models_as_dict=PydanticUndefined, **dumps_kwargs)
model_computed_fields = {}
model_config = {}

Configuration for the model, should be a dictionary conforming to [ConfigDict][pydantic.config.ConfigDict].

classmethod model_construct(_fields_set=None, **values)

Creates a new instance of the Model class with validated data.

Creates a new model setting __dict__ and __pydantic_fields_set__ from trusted or pre-validated data. Default values are respected, but no other validation is performed.

!!! note

model_construct() generally respects the model_config.extra setting on the provided model. That is, if model_config.extra == ‘allow’, then all extra passed values are added to the model instance’s __dict__ and __pydantic_extra__ fields. If model_config.extra == ‘ignore’ (the default), then all extra passed values are ignored. Because no validation is performed with a call to model_construct(), having model_config.extra == ‘forbid’ does not result in an error if extra values are passed, but they will be ignored.

Parameters:

  • _fields_set (set[str] | None) – A set of field names that were originally explicitly set during instantiation. If provided, this is directly used for the [model_fields_set][pydantic.BaseModel.model_fields_set] attribute. Otherwise, the field names from the values argument will be used.

  • values (Any) – Trusted or pre-validated data dictionary.

Returns:

A new instance of the Model class with validated data.

Return type:

Self

model_copy(*, update=None, deep=False)
!!! abstract “Usage Documentation”

[model_copy](../concepts/models.md#model-copy)

Returns a copy of the model.

!!! note

The underlying instance’s [__dict__][object.__dict__] attribute is copied. This might have unexpected side effects if you store anything in it, on top of the model fields (e.g. the value of [cached properties][functools.cached_property]).

Parameters:

  • update (Mapping[str, Any] | None) – Values to change/add in the new model. Note: the data is not validated before creating the new model. You should trust this data.

  • deep (bool) – Set to True to make a deep copy of the model.

Returns:

New model instance.

Return type:

Self

model_dump(*, mode='python', include=None, exclude=None, context=None, by_alias=None, exclude_unset=False, exclude_defaults=False, exclude_none=False, exclude_computed_fields=False, round_trip=False, warnings=True, fallback=None, serialize_as_any=False, polymorphic_serialization=None)
!!! abstract “Usage Documentation”

[model_dump](../concepts/serialization.md#python-mode)

Generate a dictionary representation of the model, optionally specifying which fields to include or exclude.

Parameters:

  • mode (Literal['json', 'python'] | str) – The mode in which to_python should run. If mode is ‘json’, the output will only contain JSON serializable types. If mode is ‘python’, the output may contain non-JSON-serializable Python objects.

  • include (set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | Mapping[str, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | None) – A set of fields to include in the output.

  • exclude (set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | Mapping[str, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | None) – A set of fields to exclude from the output.

  • context (Any | None) – Additional context to pass to the serializer.

  • by_alias (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s alias in the dictionary key if defined.

  • exclude_unset (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that have not been explicitly set.

  • exclude_defaults (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that are set to their default value.

  • exclude_none (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that have a value of None.

  • exclude_computed_fields (bool) – Whether to exclude computed fields. While this can be useful for round-tripping, it is usually recommended to use the dedicated round_trip parameter instead.

  • round_trip (bool) – If True, dumped values should be valid as input for non-idempotent types such as Json[T].

  • warnings (bool | Literal['none', 'warn', 'error']) – How to handle serialization errors. False/”none” ignores them, True/”warn” logs errors, “error” raises a [PydanticSerializationError][pydantic_core.PydanticSerializationError].

  • fallback (Callable[[Any], Any] | None) – A function to call when an unknown value is encountered. If not provided, a [PydanticSerializationError][pydantic_core.PydanticSerializationError] error is raised.

  • serialize_as_any (bool) – Whether to serialize fields with duck-typing serialization behavior.

  • polymorphic_serialization (bool | None) – Whether to use model and dataclass polymorphic serialization for this call.

Returns:

A dictionary representation of the model.

Return type:

dict[str, Any]

model_dump_json(*, indent=None, ensure_ascii=False, include=None, exclude=None, context=None, by_alias=None, exclude_unset=False, exclude_defaults=False, exclude_none=False, exclude_computed_fields=False, round_trip=False, warnings=True, fallback=None, serialize_as_any=False, polymorphic_serialization=None)
!!! abstract “Usage Documentation”

[model_dump_json](../concepts/serialization.md#json-mode)

Generates a JSON representation of the model using Pydantic’s to_json method.

Parameters:

  • indent (int | None) – Indentation to use in the JSON output. If None is passed, the output will be compact.

  • ensure_ascii (bool) – If True, the output is guaranteed to have all incoming non-ASCII characters escaped. If False (the default), these characters will be output as-is.

  • include (set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | Mapping[str, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | None) – Field(s) to include in the JSON output.

  • exclude (set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | Mapping[str, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | None) – Field(s) to exclude from the JSON output.

  • context (Any | None) – Additional context to pass to the serializer.

  • by_alias (bool | None) – Whether to serialize using field aliases.

  • exclude_unset (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that have not been explicitly set.

  • exclude_defaults (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that are set to their default value.

  • exclude_none (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that have a value of None.

  • exclude_computed_fields (bool) – Whether to exclude computed fields. While this can be useful for round-tripping, it is usually recommended to use the dedicated round_trip parameter instead.

  • round_trip (bool) – If True, dumped values should be valid as input for non-idempotent types such as Json[T].

  • warnings (bool | Literal['none', 'warn', 'error']) – How to handle serialization errors. False/”none” ignores them, True/”warn” logs errors, “error” raises a [PydanticSerializationError][pydantic_core.PydanticSerializationError].

  • fallback (Callable[[Any], Any] | None) – A function to call when an unknown value is encountered. If not provided, a [PydanticSerializationError][pydantic_core.PydanticSerializationError] error is raised.

  • serialize_as_any (bool) – Whether to serialize fields with duck-typing serialization behavior.

  • polymorphic_serialization (bool | None) – Whether to use model and dataclass polymorphic serialization for this call.

Returns:

A JSON string representation of the model.

Return type:

str

property model_extra: dict[str, Any] | None

Get extra fields set during validation.

Returns:

A dictionary of extra fields, or None if config.extra is not set to “allow”.

model_fields = {'treatment_start_period': FieldInfo(annotation=Union[str, int, float, NoneType], required=False, default=None, description='The time period value (as string) when treatment is believed to start based on the query.')}
property model_fields_set: set[str]

Returns the set of fields that have been explicitly set on this model instance.

Returns:

A set of strings representing the fields that have been set,

i.e. that were not filled from defaults.

classmethod model_json_schema(by_alias=True, ref_template=DEFAULT_REF_TEMPLATE, schema_generator=GenerateJsonSchema, mode='validation', *, union_format='any_of')

Generates a JSON schema for a model class.

Parameters:

  • by_alias (bool) – Whether to use attribute aliases or not.

  • ref_template (str) – The reference template.

  • union_format (Literal['any_of', 'primitive_type_array']) –

    The format to use when combining schemas from unions together. Can be one of:

    keyword to combine schemas (the default). - ‘primitive_type_array’: Use the [type](https://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/reference/type) keyword as an array of strings, containing each type of the combination. If any of the schemas is not a primitive type (string, boolean, null, integer or number) or contains constraints/metadata, falls back to any_of.

  • schema_generator (type[GenerateJsonSchema]) – To override the logic used to generate the JSON schema, as a subclass of GenerateJsonSchema with your desired modifications

  • mode (Literal['validation', 'serialization']) – The mode in which to generate the schema.

Returns:

The JSON schema for the given model class.

Return type:

dict[str, Any]

classmethod model_parametrized_name(params)

Compute the class name for parametrizations of generic classes.

This method can be overridden to achieve a custom naming scheme for generic BaseModels.

Parameters:

params (tuple[type[Any], ...]) – Tuple of types of the class. Given a generic class Model with 2 type variables and a concrete model Model[str, int], the value (str, int) would be passed to params.

Returns:

String representing the new class where params are passed to cls as type variables.

Raises:

TypeError – Raised when trying to generate concrete names for non-generic models.

Return type:

str

model_post_init(context, /)

Override this method to perform additional initialization after __init__ and model_construct. This is useful if you want to do some validation that requires the entire model to be initialized.

classmethod model_rebuild(*, force=False, raise_errors=True, _parent_namespace_depth=2, _types_namespace=None)

Try to rebuild the pydantic-core schema for the model.

This may be necessary when one of the annotations is a ForwardRef which could not be resolved during the initial attempt to build the schema, and automatic rebuilding fails.

Parameters:

  • force (bool) – Whether to force the rebuilding of the model schema, defaults to False.

  • raise_errors (bool) – Whether to raise errors, defaults to True.

  • _parent_namespace_depth (int) – The depth level of the parent namespace, defaults to 2.

  • _types_namespace (MappingNamespace | None) – The types namespace, defaults to None.

Returns:

Returns None if the schema is already “complete” and rebuilding was not required. If rebuilding _was_ required, returns True if rebuilding was successful, otherwise False.

Return type:

bool | None

classmethod model_validate(obj, *, strict=None, extra=None, from_attributes=None, context=None, by_alias=None, by_name=None)

Validate a pydantic model instance.

Parameters:

  • obj (Any) – The object to validate.

  • strict (bool | None) – Whether to enforce types strictly.

  • extra (Literal['allow', 'ignore', 'forbid'] | None) – Whether to ignore, allow, or forbid extra data during model validation. See the [extra configuration value][pydantic.ConfigDict.extra] for details.

  • from_attributes (bool | None) – Whether to extract data from object attributes.

  • context (Any | None) – Additional context to pass to the validator.

  • by_alias (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s alias when validating against the provided input data.

  • by_name (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s name when validating against the provided input data.

Raises:

ValidationError – If the object could not be validated.

Returns:

The validated model instance.

Return type:

Self

classmethod model_validate_json(json_data, *, strict=None, extra=None, context=None, by_alias=None, by_name=None)
!!! abstract “Usage Documentation”

[JSON Parsing](../concepts/json.md#json-parsing)

Validate the given JSON data against the Pydantic model.

Parameters:

  • json_data (str | bytes | bytearray) – The JSON data to validate.

  • strict (bool | None) – Whether to enforce types strictly.

  • extra (Literal['allow', 'ignore', 'forbid'] | None) – Whether to ignore, allow, or forbid extra data during model validation. See the [extra configuration value][pydantic.ConfigDict.extra] for details.

  • context (Any | None) – Extra variables to pass to the validator.

  • by_alias (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s alias when validating against the provided input data.

  • by_name (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s name when validating against the provided input data.

Returns:

The validated Pydantic model.

Raises:

ValidationError – If json_data is not a JSON string or the object could not be validated.

Return type:

Self

classmethod model_validate_strings(obj, *, strict=None, extra=None, context=None, by_alias=None, by_name=None)

Validate the given object with string data against the Pydantic model.

Parameters:

  • obj (Any) – The object containing string data to validate.

  • strict (bool | None) – Whether to enforce types strictly.

  • extra (Literal['allow', 'ignore', 'forbid'] | None) – Whether to ignore, allow, or forbid extra data during model validation. See the [extra configuration value][pydantic.ConfigDict.extra] for details.

  • context (Any | None) – Extra variables to pass to the validator.

  • by_alias (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s alias when validating against the provided input data.

  • by_name (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s name when validating against the provided input data.

Returns:

The validated Pydantic model.

Return type:

Self

classmethod parse_file(path, *, content_type=None, encoding='utf8', proto=None, allow_pickle=False)
classmethod parse_obj(obj)
classmethod parse_raw(b, *, content_type=None, encoding='utf8', proto=None, allow_pickle=False)
classmethod schema(by_alias=True, ref_template=DEFAULT_REF_TEMPLATE)
classmethod schema_json(*, by_alias=True, ref_template=DEFAULT_REF_TEMPLATE, **dumps_kwargs)
classmethod update_forward_refs(**localns)
classmethod validate(value)
causal_agent.methods.difference_in_differences.llm_assist.determine_treatment_period(df, time_var, treatment, query=None, dataset_description=None, llm=None)[source]

Determines the period when treatment starts.

Tries LLM first if available, then falls back to heuristic.

class causal_agent.methods.difference_in_differences.llm_assist.LLMGroupVar(*, group_variable_name=None)[source]

Bases: BaseModel

group_variable_name: str | None
__copy__()

Returns a shallow copy of the model.

__deepcopy__(memo=None)

Returns a deep copy of the model.

classmethod __get_pydantic_json_schema__(core_schema, handler, /)

Hook into generating the model’s JSON schema.

Parameters:

  • core_schema (CoreSchema) – A pydantic-core CoreSchema. You can ignore this argument and call the handler with a new CoreSchema, wrap this CoreSchema ({‘type’: ‘nullable’, ‘schema’: current_schema}), or just call the handler with the original schema.

  • handler (GetJsonSchemaHandler) – Call into Pydantic’s internal JSON schema generation. This will raise a pydantic.errors.PydanticInvalidForJsonSchema if JSON schema generation fails. Since this gets called by BaseModel.model_json_schema you can override the schema_generator argument to that function to change JSON schema generation globally for a type.

Returns:

A JSON schema, as a Python object.

Return type:

JsonSchemaValue

__init__(**data)

Create a new model by parsing and validating input data from keyword arguments.

Raises [ValidationError][pydantic_core.ValidationError] if the input data cannot be validated to form a valid model.

self is explicitly positional-only to allow self as a field name.

__iter__()

So dict(model) works.

__pretty__(fmt, **kwargs)

Used by devtools (https://python-devtools.helpmanual.io/) to pretty print objects.

classmethod __pydantic_init_subclass__(**kwargs)

This is intended to behave just like __init_subclass__, but is called by ModelMetaclass only after basic class initialization is complete. In particular, attributes like model_fields will be present when this is called, but forward annotations are not guaranteed to be resolved yet, meaning that creating an instance of the class may fail.

This is necessary because __init_subclass__ will always be called by type.__new__, and it would require a prohibitively large refactor to the ModelMetaclass to ensure that type.__new__ was called in such a manner that the class would already be sufficiently initialized.

This will receive the same kwargs that would be passed to the standard __init_subclass__, namely, any kwargs passed to the class definition that aren’t used internally by Pydantic.

Parameters:

**kwargs (Any) – Any keyword arguments passed to the class definition that aren’t used internally by Pydantic.

Note

You may want to override [__pydantic_on_complete__()][pydantic.main.BaseModel.__pydantic_on_complete__] instead, which is called once the class and its fields are fully initialized and ready for validation.

classmethod __pydantic_on_complete__()

This is called once the class and its fields are fully initialized and ready to be used.

This typically happens when the class is created (just before [__pydantic_init_subclass__()][pydantic.main.BaseModel.__pydantic_init_subclass__] is called on the superclass), except when forward annotations are used that could not immediately be resolved. In that case, it will be called later, when the model is rebuilt automatically or explicitly using [model_rebuild()][pydantic.main.BaseModel.model_rebuild].

__repr_name__()

Name of the instance’s class, used in __repr__.

__repr_recursion__(object)

Returns the string representation of a recursive object.

__rich_repr__()

Used by Rich (https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/stable/pretty.html) to pretty print objects.

classmethod construct(_fields_set=None, **values)
copy(*, include=None, exclude=None, update=None, deep=False)

Returns a copy of the model.

!!! warning “Deprecated”

This method is now deprecated; use model_copy instead.

If you need include or exclude, use:

`python {test="skip" lint="skip"} data = self.model_dump(include=include, exclude=exclude, round_trip=True) data = {**data, **(update or {})} copied = self.model_validate(data) `

Parameters:

  • include (AbstractSetIntStr | MappingIntStrAny | None) – Optional set or mapping specifying which fields to include in the copied model.

  • exclude (AbstractSetIntStr | MappingIntStrAny | None) – Optional set or mapping specifying which fields to exclude in the copied model.

  • update (Dict[str, Any] | None) – Optional dictionary of field-value pairs to override field values in the copied model.

  • deep (bool) – If True, the values of fields that are Pydantic models will be deep-copied.

Returns:

A copy of the model with included, excluded and updated fields as specified.

Return type:

Self

dict(*, include=None, exclude=None, by_alias=False, exclude_unset=False, exclude_defaults=False, exclude_none=False)
classmethod from_orm(obj)
json(*, include=None, exclude=None, by_alias=False, exclude_unset=False, exclude_defaults=False, exclude_none=False, encoder=PydanticUndefined, models_as_dict=PydanticUndefined, **dumps_kwargs)
model_computed_fields = {}
model_config = {}

Configuration for the model, should be a dictionary conforming to [ConfigDict][pydantic.config.ConfigDict].

classmethod model_construct(_fields_set=None, **values)

Creates a new instance of the Model class with validated data.

Creates a new model setting __dict__ and __pydantic_fields_set__ from trusted or pre-validated data. Default values are respected, but no other validation is performed.

!!! note

model_construct() generally respects the model_config.extra setting on the provided model. That is, if model_config.extra == ‘allow’, then all extra passed values are added to the model instance’s __dict__ and __pydantic_extra__ fields. If model_config.extra == ‘ignore’ (the default), then all extra passed values are ignored. Because no validation is performed with a call to model_construct(), having model_config.extra == ‘forbid’ does not result in an error if extra values are passed, but they will be ignored.

Parameters:

  • _fields_set (set[str] | None) – A set of field names that were originally explicitly set during instantiation. If provided, this is directly used for the [model_fields_set][pydantic.BaseModel.model_fields_set] attribute. Otherwise, the field names from the values argument will be used.

  • values (Any) – Trusted or pre-validated data dictionary.

Returns:

A new instance of the Model class with validated data.

Return type:

Self

model_copy(*, update=None, deep=False)
!!! abstract “Usage Documentation”

[model_copy](../concepts/models.md#model-copy)

Returns a copy of the model.

!!! note

The underlying instance’s [__dict__][object.__dict__] attribute is copied. This might have unexpected side effects if you store anything in it, on top of the model fields (e.g. the value of [cached properties][functools.cached_property]).

Parameters:

  • update (Mapping[str, Any] | None) – Values to change/add in the new model. Note: the data is not validated before creating the new model. You should trust this data.

  • deep (bool) – Set to True to make a deep copy of the model.

Returns:

New model instance.

Return type:

Self

model_dump(*, mode='python', include=None, exclude=None, context=None, by_alias=None, exclude_unset=False, exclude_defaults=False, exclude_none=False, exclude_computed_fields=False, round_trip=False, warnings=True, fallback=None, serialize_as_any=False, polymorphic_serialization=None)
!!! abstract “Usage Documentation”

[model_dump](../concepts/serialization.md#python-mode)

Generate a dictionary representation of the model, optionally specifying which fields to include or exclude.

Parameters:

  • mode (Literal['json', 'python'] | str) – The mode in which to_python should run. If mode is ‘json’, the output will only contain JSON serializable types. If mode is ‘python’, the output may contain non-JSON-serializable Python objects.

  • include (set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | Mapping[str, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | None) – A set of fields to include in the output.

  • exclude (set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | Mapping[str, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | None) – A set of fields to exclude from the output.

  • context (Any | None) – Additional context to pass to the serializer.

  • by_alias (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s alias in the dictionary key if defined.

  • exclude_unset (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that have not been explicitly set.

  • exclude_defaults (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that are set to their default value.

  • exclude_none (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that have a value of None.

  • exclude_computed_fields (bool) – Whether to exclude computed fields. While this can be useful for round-tripping, it is usually recommended to use the dedicated round_trip parameter instead.

  • round_trip (bool) – If True, dumped values should be valid as input for non-idempotent types such as Json[T].

  • warnings (bool | Literal['none', 'warn', 'error']) – How to handle serialization errors. False/”none” ignores them, True/”warn” logs errors, “error” raises a [PydanticSerializationError][pydantic_core.PydanticSerializationError].

  • fallback (Callable[[Any], Any] | None) – A function to call when an unknown value is encountered. If not provided, a [PydanticSerializationError][pydantic_core.PydanticSerializationError] error is raised.

  • serialize_as_any (bool) – Whether to serialize fields with duck-typing serialization behavior.

  • polymorphic_serialization (bool | None) – Whether to use model and dataclass polymorphic serialization for this call.

Returns:

A dictionary representation of the model.

Return type:

dict[str, Any]

model_dump_json(*, indent=None, ensure_ascii=False, include=None, exclude=None, context=None, by_alias=None, exclude_unset=False, exclude_defaults=False, exclude_none=False, exclude_computed_fields=False, round_trip=False, warnings=True, fallback=None, serialize_as_any=False, polymorphic_serialization=None)
!!! abstract “Usage Documentation”

[model_dump_json](../concepts/serialization.md#json-mode)

Generates a JSON representation of the model using Pydantic’s to_json method.

Parameters:

  • indent (int | None) – Indentation to use in the JSON output. If None is passed, the output will be compact.

  • ensure_ascii (bool) – If True, the output is guaranteed to have all incoming non-ASCII characters escaped. If False (the default), these characters will be output as-is.

  • include (set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | Mapping[str, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | None) – Field(s) to include in the JSON output.

  • exclude (set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | Mapping[str, set[int] | set[str] | Mapping[int, IncEx | bool] | Mapping[str, IncEx | bool] | bool] | None) – Field(s) to exclude from the JSON output.

  • context (Any | None) – Additional context to pass to the serializer.

  • by_alias (bool | None) – Whether to serialize using field aliases.

  • exclude_unset (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that have not been explicitly set.

  • exclude_defaults (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that are set to their default value.

  • exclude_none (bool) – Whether to exclude fields that have a value of None.

  • exclude_computed_fields (bool) – Whether to exclude computed fields. While this can be useful for round-tripping, it is usually recommended to use the dedicated round_trip parameter instead.

  • round_trip (bool) – If True, dumped values should be valid as input for non-idempotent types such as Json[T].

  • warnings (bool | Literal['none', 'warn', 'error']) – How to handle serialization errors. False/”none” ignores them, True/”warn” logs errors, “error” raises a [PydanticSerializationError][pydantic_core.PydanticSerializationError].

  • fallback (Callable[[Any], Any] | None) – A function to call when an unknown value is encountered. If not provided, a [PydanticSerializationError][pydantic_core.PydanticSerializationError] error is raised.

  • serialize_as_any (bool) – Whether to serialize fields with duck-typing serialization behavior.

  • polymorphic_serialization (bool | None) – Whether to use model and dataclass polymorphic serialization for this call.

Returns:

A JSON string representation of the model.

Return type:

str

property model_extra: dict[str, Any] | None

Get extra fields set during validation.

Returns:

A dictionary of extra fields, or None if config.extra is not set to “allow”.

model_fields = {'group_variable_name': FieldInfo(annotation=Union[str, NoneType], required=False, default=None, description='The column name identifying the panel unit (e.g., state, individual, firm).')}
property model_fields_set: set[str]

Returns the set of fields that have been explicitly set on this model instance.

Returns:

A set of strings representing the fields that have been set,

i.e. that were not filled from defaults.

classmethod model_json_schema(by_alias=True, ref_template=DEFAULT_REF_TEMPLATE, schema_generator=GenerateJsonSchema, mode='validation', *, union_format='any_of')

Generates a JSON schema for a model class.

Parameters:

  • by_alias (bool) – Whether to use attribute aliases or not.

  • ref_template (str) – The reference template.

  • union_format (Literal['any_of', 'primitive_type_array']) –

    The format to use when combining schemas from unions together. Can be one of:

    keyword to combine schemas (the default). - ‘primitive_type_array’: Use the [type](https://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/reference/type) keyword as an array of strings, containing each type of the combination. If any of the schemas is not a primitive type (string, boolean, null, integer or number) or contains constraints/metadata, falls back to any_of.

  • schema_generator (type[GenerateJsonSchema]) – To override the logic used to generate the JSON schema, as a subclass of GenerateJsonSchema with your desired modifications

  • mode (Literal['validation', 'serialization']) – The mode in which to generate the schema.

Returns:

The JSON schema for the given model class.

Return type:

dict[str, Any]

classmethod model_parametrized_name(params)

Compute the class name for parametrizations of generic classes.

This method can be overridden to achieve a custom naming scheme for generic BaseModels.

Parameters:

params (tuple[type[Any], ...]) – Tuple of types of the class. Given a generic class Model with 2 type variables and a concrete model Model[str, int], the value (str, int) would be passed to params.

Returns:

String representing the new class where params are passed to cls as type variables.

Raises:

TypeError – Raised when trying to generate concrete names for non-generic models.

Return type:

str

model_post_init(context, /)

Override this method to perform additional initialization after __init__ and model_construct. This is useful if you want to do some validation that requires the entire model to be initialized.

classmethod model_rebuild(*, force=False, raise_errors=True, _parent_namespace_depth=2, _types_namespace=None)

Try to rebuild the pydantic-core schema for the model.

This may be necessary when one of the annotations is a ForwardRef which could not be resolved during the initial attempt to build the schema, and automatic rebuilding fails.

Parameters:

  • force (bool) – Whether to force the rebuilding of the model schema, defaults to False.

  • raise_errors (bool) – Whether to raise errors, defaults to True.

  • _parent_namespace_depth (int) – The depth level of the parent namespace, defaults to 2.

  • _types_namespace (MappingNamespace | None) – The types namespace, defaults to None.

Returns:

Returns None if the schema is already “complete” and rebuilding was not required. If rebuilding _was_ required, returns True if rebuilding was successful, otherwise False.

Return type:

bool | None

classmethod model_validate(obj, *, strict=None, extra=None, from_attributes=None, context=None, by_alias=None, by_name=None)

Validate a pydantic model instance.

Parameters:

  • obj (Any) – The object to validate.

  • strict (bool | None) – Whether to enforce types strictly.

  • extra (Literal['allow', 'ignore', 'forbid'] | None) – Whether to ignore, allow, or forbid extra data during model validation. See the [extra configuration value][pydantic.ConfigDict.extra] for details.

  • from_attributes (bool | None) – Whether to extract data from object attributes.

  • context (Any | None) – Additional context to pass to the validator.

  • by_alias (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s alias when validating against the provided input data.

  • by_name (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s name when validating against the provided input data.

Raises:

ValidationError – If the object could not be validated.

Returns:

The validated model instance.

Return type:

Self

classmethod model_validate_json(json_data, *, strict=None, extra=None, context=None, by_alias=None, by_name=None)
!!! abstract “Usage Documentation”

[JSON Parsing](../concepts/json.md#json-parsing)

Validate the given JSON data against the Pydantic model.

Parameters:

  • json_data (str | bytes | bytearray) – The JSON data to validate.

  • strict (bool | None) – Whether to enforce types strictly.

  • extra (Literal['allow', 'ignore', 'forbid'] | None) – Whether to ignore, allow, or forbid extra data during model validation. See the [extra configuration value][pydantic.ConfigDict.extra] for details.

  • context (Any | None) – Extra variables to pass to the validator.

  • by_alias (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s alias when validating against the provided input data.

  • by_name (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s name when validating against the provided input data.

Returns:

The validated Pydantic model.

Raises:

ValidationError – If json_data is not a JSON string or the object could not be validated.

Return type:

Self

classmethod model_validate_strings(obj, *, strict=None, extra=None, context=None, by_alias=None, by_name=None)

Validate the given object with string data against the Pydantic model.

Parameters:

  • obj (Any) – The object containing string data to validate.

  • strict (bool | None) – Whether to enforce types strictly.

  • extra (Literal['allow', 'ignore', 'forbid'] | None) – Whether to ignore, allow, or forbid extra data during model validation. See the [extra configuration value][pydantic.ConfigDict.extra] for details.

  • context (Any | None) – Extra variables to pass to the validator.

  • by_alias (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s alias when validating against the provided input data.

  • by_name (bool | None) – Whether to use the field’s name when validating against the provided input data.

Returns:

The validated Pydantic model.

Return type:

Self

classmethod parse_file(path, *, content_type=None, encoding='utf8', proto=None, allow_pickle=False)
classmethod parse_obj(obj)
classmethod parse_raw(b, *, content_type=None, encoding='utf8', proto=None, allow_pickle=False)
classmethod schema(by_alias=True, ref_template=DEFAULT_REF_TEMPLATE)
classmethod schema_json(*, by_alias=True, ref_template=DEFAULT_REF_TEMPLATE, **dumps_kwargs)
classmethod update_forward_refs(**localns)
classmethod validate(value)
causal_agent.methods.difference_in_differences.llm_assist.identify_treatment_group(df, treatment_var, query=None, dataset_description=None, llm=None)[source]

Identifies the variable indicating the treated group/unit ID.

Tries heuristic check for non-binary treatment_var first, then LLM, then falls back to assuming treatment_var is the group/unit identifier.

causal_agent.methods.difference_in_differences.llm_assist.interpret_did_results(results, diagnostics, dataset_description=None, llm=None)[source]

Use LLM to interpret Difference-in-Differences results.

causal_agent.methods.difference_in_differences.utils module

causal_agent.methods.difference_in_differences.utils.create_post_indicator(df, time_var, treatment_period_start)[source]

Creates the post-treatment indicator variable. Checks if time_var is already a 0/1 indicator; otherwise, compares to treatment_period_start.