# Getting started

## Installation

### Requirements

- python 3

- numpy

- networkx

- pandas

- scipy

- scikit-learn

- statsmodels

- pydot

(For visualization)

- matplotlib

- graphviz

- pygraphviz (might not support the most recent Mac)

### Install via PyPI

To use causal-learn, we could install it using pip:

    (.venv) $ pip install causal-learn

### Install from source

For development version, please kindly refer to our GitHub Repository.

## Running examples

For search methods in causal discovery, there are various running examples in the ‘tests’ directory in our GitHub Repository, such as TestPC.py and TestGES.py.

For the implemented modules, such as (conditional) independent test methods, we provide unit tests for the convenience of developing your own methods.