hanalyze
π English | ζ₯ζ¬θͺ

hanalyze is a Haskell-native statistical engineering toolkit: regression, GLMM, Bayesian inference (HMC/NUTS/Gibbs/ADVI/SMC), Gaussian processes, machine learning (SVM / gradient boosting / neural networks), survival analysis (KM / Cox / AFT / competing risks), time series (ARIMA / GARCH / state space), causal discovery (LiNGAM) and treatment-effect estimation, design of experiments (classical + custom optimal design), multi-objective optimisation, native plotting, and HTML reporting integrated under one API.
Core modelling and optimisation logic is implemented in Haskell, with numerical linear algebra delegated to hmatrix/BLAS/LAPACK. No R/Stan/Python bridge required.
Benchmarks (see below) show competitive accuracy with Python/R references in the tested cases. Performance varies by domain: optimisation and small-to-medium MCMC workloads are often faster in these benchmarks, while large-scale ML/GLM workloads are currently slower than sklearn.
Highlights
- Haskell-native: types catch many dtype/API mismatches; shape checks happen at runtime where needed
- Algorithms in Haskell, BLAS for numerics: hmatrix/BLAS/LAPACK powers linear algebra; no R/Stan/Python bridge
- Native plotting: 90+ documented figure types through the hgg grammar-of-graphics integration (separate
hanalyze-plot package, build with cabal build --project-file=cabal.project.plot) β pure-Haskell SVG output, no browser required (see Gallery)
- HTML reporting: MathJax/Mermaid + Vega-Lite visualisations in one call; PNG/SVG export available for supported plots
- Dirty-data defence: 8 warning codes + auto-sniff (delim/header/encoding) + cleaning DSL
- Hackage
dataframe: Polars-like DataFrame used directly; CSV native, Parquet/JSON support through dataframe
Gallery
Every figure below (and 90+ more across docs/) is generated straight
from analysis results via the hgg integration β pure Haskell, SVG out.
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 Linear regression β fit + 95% CI (docs) |
 Bayesian MCMC dashboard β trace / density / RΜ / ESS (docs) |
 Gaussian process β mean + credible band (docs) |
 Kernel SVM (RBF) β decision boundary + support vectors (docs) |
 DOE prediction profiler β response vs each factor + CI (docs) |
 RSM response surface (3D) (docs) |
 DirectLiNGAM causal discovery β estimated DAG (docs) |
 Kaplan-Meier survival curves (docs) |
 Time-series forecast (docs) |
 k-means clusters + 95% ellipses (docs) |
Capabilities
Features are organised by topic, with the details delegated to the per-topic docs and
the package READMEs. The full index is docs/README.md; the
exhaustive API dictionary is docs/api-guide/ (12 chapters).
| Topic |
Main items |
Guide |
API |
| Statistical inference |
12 hypothesis tests, multiple-comparison correction, bootstrap CI, effect size + power, cross-validation |
stat/ |
10 stat |
| Regression |
LM / GLM / GLMM / robust / quantile / penalized (ridgeβ¦SCAD) / spline / GAM / GP / RFF |
regression/ |
02 regression |
| Machine learning |
Random forest / GBM / decision tree / k-NN / naive Bayes / SVM / MLP / MDS / PDP and ICE |
ml/ |
05 ml |
| Multivariate |
PCA / PLS / RRR / CCA / discriminant analysis / clustering / FDA |
fda/ |
04 multivariate |
| Causal |
Propensity score / IPW / DR / CATE / all 7 LiNGAM variants |
causal/ |
08 causal |
| Bayesian |
HBM DSL (plates, hierarchy) / MH, HMC, NUTS, Gibbs, ADVI / convergence diagnostics / posterior predictive |
bayesian/ |
03 bayesian-hbm |
| Time series & survival |
AR / VAR / GARCH / Kalman / Kaplan-Meier / competing risks / AFT / Cox |
timeseries/ |
06 / 07 |
| Optimization |
Nelder-Mead / L-BFGS / DE / CMA-ES / NSGA-II / Bayesian optimization / augmented Lagrangian |
optim/ |
β |
| Design of experiments |
Factorial / RSM / D-, A-, I-, G-optimal / orthogonal arrays / Taguchi / custom design / power |
doe/ |
09 doe |
| Data I/O |
CSV / Parquet / JSON loading, cleaning, reshaping (Data.Transform / Data.Wrangle) |
io/ |
11 data |
| Visualization |
Vega-Lite based charts, integrated HTML reports, HBM DAG rendering |
visualization/ |
12 plot |
One entry point: every model is fitted with df |-> spec and drawn with toPlot.
The plotting integration lives in a separate package, hanalyze-plot
(cabal build --project-file=cabal.project.plot).
Version compatibility with the plotting ecosystem:
| hgg |
hanalyze |
integration packages |
| 0.2.x |
0.2.0.1+ |
hanalyze-plot 0.2.0.1 (analyze β plot) / hgg-analyze-bridge 0.2 (plot β analyze) |
Installation
Requirements
| Item |
Requirement |
| GHC |
9.6.7 (the tested-with of every package) |
| cabal |
3.14.2 or newer (verified with 3.16.1) |
| BLAS / LAPACK |
Required by hmatrix (Debian/Ubuntu: libblas-dev liblapack-dev gfortran / Arch: blas lapack gcc-fortran). For OpenBLAS use --constraint='hmatrix +openblas' |
| Graphviz |
Optional; only to rasterize the DOT output of ModelGraphDot |
Using it as a library
This repository is a 10-package multi-package project and is not published as a
package yet. Clone it and list the packages in your own cabal.project.
git clone https://github.com/frenzieddoll/hanalyze
-- cabal.project
packages: .
./hanalyze/hanalyze
./hanalyze/hanalyze-core
./hanalyze/hanalyze-frame
./hanalyze/hanalyze-bayes
./hanalyze/hanalyze-models
./hanalyze/hanalyze-design
./hanalyze/hanalyze-viz
For build-depends, hanalyze alone is the default answer (module names do
not change across layers). Name a layer directly only when you want to narrow the
dependency. Each package has a README with a module map and a standalone example.
| Package |
Role |
hanalyze |
Umbrella re-exporting every layer (use this unless you have a reason not to) |
-core |
Descriptive statistics, tests, optimization, numerical core |
-frame |
DataFrame integration, loading, reshaping, the fit API |
-models |
Regression, machine learning, time series, survival, causal |
-bayes |
MCMC and HBM |
-design |
Design of experiments |
-viz |
Vega-Lite visualization and HTML reports |
-plot |
hgg integration (toPlot); separate build root |
-cli |
The hanalyze command |
-demos |
Demo and benchmark executables |
Opt-in build roots
The default cabal.project is plot-independent; switch roots as needed.
| Build root |
Contents |
cabal.project (default) |
Library + tests (no plot dependency) |
cabal.project.plot |
The above + hanalyze-plot (requires the sibling hgg) |
cabal.project.demos |
The above + the demo / benchmark executables |
Just the CLI
cabal install hanalyze-cli # installs the hanalyze command
Quick start
30 seconds via CLI
git clone https://github.com/frenzieddoll/hanalyze
cd hanalyze
# Regress sales on price + promo, write an HTML report.
cabal run hanalyze -- regress data/readme/sales.csv "price promo" sales --report sales.html
# Ξ²β=185.05 Ξ²(price)=-4.37 Ξ²(promo)=+32.29 RΒ²=0.995
data/readme/sales.csv is a 20-row demo CSV shipped with the repository
(price, promo, sales). The generated sales.html includes coefficients,
fit diagnostics, and an interactive prediction widget β straight from one
command.
30 seconds via Haskell API
import qualified Hanalyze.Stat.Test as ST
import qualified Numeric.LinearAlgebra as LA
main = do
let xs = LA.fromList [12, 14, 13, 15, 17, 11]
ys = LA.fromList [18, 22, 20, 19, 25, 17]
result = ST.tTestWelch xs ys ST.TwoSided
print (ST.trPValue result, ST.trEffect result)
-- (1.688e-3, Just ("Cohen's d", -2.527))
A single import Hanalyze re-exports the core entry points (linear / GLM models,
descriptive stats, tests, effect sizes, distributions, plotting helpers and CSV
I/O) for quick exploration; reach for the individual Hanalyze.Model.* /
Hanalyze.Stat.* modules when you need their full surface.
See docs/01-quickstart.md for a fuller introduction.
CLI
hanalyze help list subcommands
hanalyze regress <file> <x> <y> LM/GLM/GP/HBM regression + HTML report
hanalyze info <file> per-column type/statistics
hanalyze hist <file> <col> histogram with theoretical PDF overlay
hanalyze ridge <file> ... regularised regression (Ridge/Lasso/EN)
hanalyze kernel <file> ... kernel regression (NW/KR/RFF), multi-D inputs
hanalyze spline <file> ... spline regression
hanalyze multireg <file> ... multi-output regression + interactive HTML
hanalyze melt <file> ... long-form transform
hanalyze regrid <file> ... time-axis grid alignment
hanalyze doe ortho <NAME> -f ... orthogonal-array generation
hanalyze taguchi sn / analyze Taguchi method
hanalyze clean <file> --rule ... dirty-data cleaning
For per-command flags, run hanalyze <cmd> --help or see docs/01-quickstart.md.
Examples / demos
hanalyze-demos/demo/ contains many demos (76 as of this release). Highlights:
| Demo |
Summary |
hanalyze-demos/demo/regression/HBMRegressionDemo.hs |
HBM Bayesian linear regression with NUTS + HTML |
hanalyze-demos/demo/regression/RFFDemo.hs |
Large-scale GP via Random Fourier Features |
hanalyze-demos/demo/regression/RobustGPDemo.hs |
Robust GP with Student-t observation likelihood |
hanalyze-demos/demo/doe-optim/NSGADemo.hs |
NSGA-II + Pareto on the ZDT suite |
hanalyze-demos/demo/doe-optim/BayesOptDemo.hs |
BO on Branin / Hartmann6 |
hanalyze-demos/demo/bayesian/HBMComparisonDemo.hs |
Compare HBMs with WAIC / LOO |
hanalyze-demos/demo/bayesian/SimpsonParadoxDemo.hs |
Disentangle Simpson's paradox via hierarchical model |
hanalyze-demos/demo/io/DirtyDataDemo.hs |
Auto-defend against 19 dirty CSV variants |
Run: dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-linux/ghc-9.6.7/hanalyze-demos-0.2.0.1/x/<demo-name>/build/<demo-name>/<demo-name>.
Where hanalyze fits
Rather than a complete Python/R replacement, hanalyze targets specific
workflows where Haskell integration, single-binary CLI, and tight reporting
add value.
Strong fit
- Haskell-native pipelines that need stats/Bayes/optim without calling out to Python
- Single-binary CLI distribution (one
hanalyze binary, no Python venv)
- Dirty-CSV defence + cleaning + analysis in one workflow
- DoE / Taguchi / orthogonal arrays for manufacturing and process tuning
- HTML reports straight from the analysis (no separate templating step)
- Type-safe analysis pipelines that catch dtype/API mismatches early
Not a goal β keep using existing tools for
- Large-scale DataFrame work (pandas / polars / data.table)
- GPU deep learning (PyTorch / JAX)
- The full breadth of scikit-learn's mature model zoo
- The full Stan / PyMC MCMC diagnostics ecosystem
- The full expressive range of ggplot2
Comparison vs Python
R is included in the feature map only β no numerical bench against R has been run.
Numbers below come from bench/results/{haskell,python}/*.csv; see
bench/results/SUMMARY.md for the full table and
benchmark conditions (OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1,
single-thread, deterministic seeds).
| Domain |
Result in these benchmarks |
| Single-objective optim (DE/CMAES/L-BFGS/NM) |
Often faster than scipy in tested cases (Rosenbrock_2D/DE 134Γ, Ackley/CMAES 49Γ, Griewank/CMAES 54Γ). On Sphere_30D/L-BFGS the reported objective value is 8.1e-40 vs scipy 2.6e-11 in this run. |
| Multi-objective optim (NSGA-II) |
Comparable or favourable in the ZDT/DTLZ suite (DTLZ2_3 1.43Γ faster, ZDT1/2/3 within Β±5% of pymoo). HV/IGD figures match or slightly improve on pymoo in these runs. |
| Bayesian optim (BO) |
Comparable on Branin (1.15Γ); on Hartmann6 the best objective in this run was -3.07 vs skopt -2.77. |
| Simulated annealing (Tsallis SA) |
Comparable; Rastrigin_10D reaches 0.0 in this run (scipy dual_annealing reports 7.8e-14). |
| Classical regression (LM/Ridge/Lasso/GLMM) |
Comparable in tested cases; LME 30Γ faster than statsmodels in our LME run. |
| Large-scale GLM/Lasso (n β₯ 10k) |
Currently slower than sklearn (3-5Γ in tested cases) β sklearn's Cython inner loops dominate. |
| Kernel/GP |
Currently slower than sklearn (2.5-4.7Γ in tested cases). |
| Bayesian MCMC (NUTS/HMC) |
NUTS with ESS comparable to blackjax (mu: 839 vs 810) on the 8-schools benchmark; 7.4Γ faster than PyMC; 2.8Γ slower than blackjax (JAX-JIT advantage). |
| HBM (probabilistic programming) |
Polymorphic DSL with selected PyMC-style modelling features and selected distributions (Truncated/Censored/MvNormal/LKJ/...). |
| VI / WAIC / LOO |
ADVI 3.0Γ faster than numpyro SVI on a small logistic posterior; LOO 2.9Γ faster than arviz on (S=1000, N=200) log-lik matrix. |
| Hypothesis tests / bootstrap / k-fold |
Welch t-test 39Γ faster, KS 11Γ, k-fold split 2.2Γ faster than scipy/sklearn in tested cases. |
| Time series / Spline / GAM |
ARIMA 128Γ faster than statsmodels; Spline PCHIP comparable to scipy; GAM ~1.6Γ slower than pygam in tested cases. |
| Survival analysis (KM/Cox PH) |
Comparable to lifelines in tested cases (KM/CoxPH). |
| Multi-output regression / Regrid |
MultiLM 2.3Γ faster than sklearn; regridLong 20Γ faster than a hand-written pandas+scipy synthesis. |
| Visualisation |
Vega-Lite specs via hvega (grammar-of-graphics-style); HTML reports built-in. |
See docs/comparison/python-r.md for the feature map, and bench/results/SUMMARY.md for numbers.
Benchmark highlights
Selected results from bench/results/SUMMARY.md. Each entry is a single
benchmark configuration; absolute objective values depend on iteration
counts, seeds, and tolerances β see the SUMMARY for full conditions.
NUTS is additionally validated against posteriordb reference posteriors
(see bench/posteriordb/).
- NUTS 8-schools (warmup 500, samples 1000): hanalyze 1492 ms with ESS(mu) 839 vs blackjax 530 ms / ESS 810 in this run
- Holt-Winters seasonal n=500 p=12: hanalyze 0.19 ms vs statsmodels MLE 96 ms in this run (note: hanalyze uses fixed Ξ±=0.3 closed-form; statsmodels does MLE)
- Sphere_30D/DE: hanalyze 1.0e-26 vs scipy 2.8e-5 on this benchmark
- Sphere_30D/L-BFGS: hanalyze 8.1e-40 vs scipy 2.6e-11 on this benchmark
- Rastrigin_10D/SA: hanalyze 0.0 vs scipy
dual_annealing 7.8e-14 in this run
- Hartmann6/BO: hanalyze -3.07 vs skopt -2.77 in this run
- DTLZ2_3/NSGA-II: hanalyze 528 ms vs pymoo 758 ms (1.43Γ faster in this run)
- DE Rosenbrock_2D: hanalyze 1.2 ms vs scipy 164 ms (134Γ faster in this run)
- Constrained Quad2D (eq): hanalyze 0.062 ms vs scipy SLSQP 0.69 ms in this run
- regridLong on jagged long-form: hanalyze 0.99 ms vs pandas+scipy synthesis 19.4 ms in this run
Reproduce: OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 cabal run bench-{regression,kernel,optim,mo,bo,mcmc-b7,mcmc-extras,ts-extras,optim-plus,stat-util,multi-output,regrid}, then bench/python/bench_*.py (see bench/README.md).
Architecture
graph TD
IO[DataIO.* CSV/Parquet/JSON]
IO --> DF[Hackage dataframe]
DF --> Models[Model.* regression/ML/Bayesian/TS/Survival]
DF --> Stat[Stat.* tests/CV/effect/interpret]
Models --> Optim[Optim.* optimisation]
Models --> MCMC[MCMC.* samplers]
Models --> Viz[Viz.* HTML/PNG/SVG]
Stat --> Viz
MCMC --> Viz
Optim --> Design[Design.* DoE/Taguchi]
All modules talk to Hackage dataframe directly. The internal DataFrame.Core was retired.
Roadmap & API stability
- Stable (API expected to remain backward-compatible within minor versions):
Hanalyze.DataIO.*, Hanalyze.Stat.{Test, Bootstrap, MultipleTesting, ClassMetrics, CV, Effect, Distribution}, Hanalyze.Model.{LM, GLM, Spline, Regularized, RandomForest, DecisionTree, TimeSeries, Survival, GAM}, Hanalyze.Optim.{NelderMead, LBFGS, DifferentialEvolution, CMAES, NSGA, BayesOpt, SimulatedAnnealing, ParticleSwarm}, Hanalyze.Design.*, Hanalyze.Viz.{Scatter, Bar, Histogram}.
- Experimental (API may evolve):
Hanalyze.Model.HBM DSL, Hanalyze.MCMC.NUTS (mass-matrix adaptation is opt-in), Hanalyze.Stat.VI (ADVI), Hanalyze.Model.{GP, RFF, GPRobust, GLMM}, Hanalyze.Model.{SVM, GradientBoosting, NeuralNetwork}, Hanalyze.Model.LiNGAM.*, Hanalyze.Design.Custom.*, the df |-> spec fit operator (Hanalyze.Fit), the hgg integration (cabal.project.plot build root), Hanalyze.Viz.ReportBuilder. Behaviour is benchmarked but type signatures may shift.
- Future direction: a backend-abstraction typeclass for swapping hmatrix/Massiv/Accelerate is under consideration but not on a fixed schedule. (The unified top-level re-export layer and the fit-operator API planned earlier landed in 0.2.0.0 as
module Hanalyze and Hanalyze.Fit.)
Module layout
Multi-package since Phase 106 (2026-07-19). The umbrella package hanalyze
re-exports every module under its original name, so downstream imports are unchanged.
Packages sit flat at the repo root and the root itself is a pure workspace
(cabal.project only, no root package) β the conventional layout for Haskell
library monorepos (cabal, plutus).
hanalyze/ β umbrella: Fit/Wrappers/Diagnostics/Analyze + re-exports, test suite
hanalyze-core/ β Math kernels, low-level Stat, Optim, MCMC.Core, Model.Core (44 mods)
hanalyze-frame/ β Data/ + DataIO/ (CSV/JSON/Parquet IO, clean DSL, reshape) (14 mods)
hanalyze-bayes/ β HBM DSL/IR + MCMC samplers (MH/HMC/NUTS/Gibbs/Slice/SMC) + VI (26 mods)
hanalyze-models/ β LM/GLM/GLMM/GP/SVM/GBM/NN/Cluster/TS/Survival/LiNGAM/FDA etc. (67 mods)
hanalyze-design/ β Factorial/Block/RSM/Orthogonal/Taguchi + Custom optimal design (30 mods)
hanalyze-viz/ β Vega-Lite-based visualisation + ReportBuilder (19 mods)
hanalyze-plot/ β hgg integration (cabal.project.plot root only) (8 mods)
hanalyze-cli/ β the `hanalyze` CLI executable
hanalyze-demos/ β hanalyze-demos/demo/posteriordb executables (cabal.project.demos root only)
As of this release: 212 modules, ~1,390 test examples.
Build
cabal build all # umbrella library + CLI + test suite
cabal test all # hspec test suite
cabal repl hanalyze # interactive REPL (umbrella)
Build roots: default cabal.project (standalone, no plot), cabal.project.plot
(+ hgg integration), cabal.project.demos (+ hanalyze-demos/demo/posteriordb executables).
See CONTRIBUTING for the full table.
Major dependencies: hmatrix (BLAS/LAPACK), hvega (Vega-Lite), statistics, mwc-random, dataframe (Hackage Polars-like), massiv (parallel arrays), ad (auto-diff), async.
Tested on GHC 9.6.7 + cabal 3.14.2.
Running benchmarks
# 1. Generate shared test data (fixed-seed, deterministic)
# The benchmark executables live in the demos package, so pass that build root
cabal run --project-file=cabal.project.demos bench-data-gen
# 2. Haskell side
OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 \
cabal run --project-file=cabal.project.demos \\
bench-regression bench-kernel bench-optim bench-mo bench-bo
# 3. Python side (need bench/venv from bench/requirements.txt)
OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 \
bench/venv/bin/python bench/python/bench_regression.py
# (similarly for kernel, optim, mo, bo)
# 4. Aggregate (Markdown table)
bench/venv/bin/python bench/aggregate.py > bench/results/SUMMARY.md
Development
- Issues / PRs: github.com/frenzieddoll/hanalyze
- Adding tests: append hspec specs in
test/Spec.hs
- Adding benchmarks: place
hanalyze-demos/bench/haskell/Bench*.hs and matching Python script
- Coding rules: see
CONTRIBUTING.md (no list-passing on hot paths, minimise unsafe*, ...)
License
BSD-3-Clause License β see LICENSE.
Author
Toshiaki Honda frenzieddoll@gmail.com