Colabtools: Deprecated library package( scipy.misc.factorial ) causing error

[Gurubux]

Bug report for Colab: http://colab.research.google.com/.

For questions about colab usage, please use stackoverflow.

ISSUE
On the import of import statsmodels.formula.api as sm
Reports following error in Read-Only file _edgeworth.py_

While /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/statsmodels/distributions/edgeworth.py in <module>()
      5 import numpy as np
      6 from numpy.polynomial.hermite_e import HermiteE
----> 7 from scipy.misc import factorial
      8 from scipy.stats import rv_continuous
      9 import scipy.special as special

ImportError: cannot import name 'factorial'

The Solution as per https://stackoverflow.com/a/56284155/5653568 is to import scipy.special.factorial instead of scipy.misc.factorial, since scipy.misc.factorial is deprecated.

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Link to colab file : https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1JCi5qVE349ienBeryVPllRTYyswRaRLn

[craigcitro]

It looks like our versions of statsmodels and scipy are incompatible: https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels/issues/5759

Until that's fixed, you should be able to pip install scipy==1.2 to get unblocked.

[Gurubux]

@craigcitro
That resolved my current code issue
Appreciate instant reply 👍
I am not sure whether this issue is to be closed or be left open until incompatibility is managed.
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1JCi5qVE349ienBeryVPllRTYyswRaRLn

[craigcitro]

Yes, let's leave this open for tracking the fix on our side.

[jakevdp]

I think the fix will be to upgrade our installation of statsmodels to version 0.10, which should be released some time this month: https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels/issues/5759

[jakevdp]

statsmodels is now updated in colab