Port Prior class from PyMC-Marketing (#470)

* port modules

* port tests

* remove references and bring back deserialize

* add to requirements

* add check for list

* add pydantic

* add pytest-mock

* fix tests

* add preliz

* remove references to pymc-marketig

* install test for tests

* add to the docs

* fix the typo

* remove deserialize module

* remove the deserialize docs

Author: williambdean

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ jobs:
           cache-environment: true
       - name: Install pymc-extras
         run: |
-          pip install -e .
+          pip install -e ".[dev]"
           python --version
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ jobs:
           cache-environment: true
       - name: Install pymc-extras
         run: |
-          pip install -e .
+          pip install -e ".[dev]"
           python --version
       - name: Run tests
         # This job uses a cmd shell, therefore the environment variable syntax is different!

conda-envs/environment-test.yml

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ dependencies:
   - pytest
   - pytest-cov
   - libgcc<15
+  - pydantic>=2.0.0
+  - preliz
   - pip
   - pip:
       - jax

docs/api_reference.rst

@@ -46,6 +46,21 @@ Distributions
    Skellam
    histogram_approximation
 
+Prior
+=====
+
+.. currentmodule:: pymc_extras.prior
+.. autosummary::
+   :toctree: generated/
+
+   create_dim_handler
+   handle_dims
+   Prior
+   VariableFactory
+   sample_prior
+   Censored
+   Scaled
+
 
 Transforms
 ==========