Arviz

New features

- Add new example data `rugby_field` and update `rugby` example data ([2322](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2322))
- Support for `pytree`s and robust to nested dictionaries. ([2291](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2291))
- Add `.close` method to `InferenceData` ([2338](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2338))


Maintenance and fixes
- Fix deprecation warnings in multiple dependencies ([2329](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2329),
[2332](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2332) and [2333](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2333))

Maintenance and fixes
- Fix deprecations introduced in latest pandas and xarray versions, and prepare for numpy 2.0 ones ([2315](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2315)))
- Refactor ECDF code ([2311](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2311))
- Fix `plot_forest` when Numba is installed ([2319](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2319))

New features
- Add prior sensitivity diagnostic `psens` ([2093](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2093))
- Add filter_vars functionality to `InfereceData.to_dataframe`method ([2277](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2277))

Maintenance and fixes

- Update requirements: matplotlib>=3.5, pandas>=1.4.0, numpy>=1.22.0 ([2280](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2280))
- Fix behaviour of `plot_ppc` when dimension order isn't `chain, draw, ...` ([2283](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2283))
- Avoid repeating the variable name in `plot_ppc`, `plot_bpv`, `plot_loo_pit`... when repeated. ([2283](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2283))
- Add support for the latest CmdStanPy. ([2287](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2287))
- Fix import error on windows due to missing encoding argument ([2300](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2300))
- Add ``__delitem__`` method to InferenceData ([2292](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2292))

Documentation
- Improve the docstring of `psislw` ([2300](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2300))
- Rerun the quickstart and working with InferenceData notebooks ([2300](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2300))

- Several fixes in `plot_ppc` docstring ([2283](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2283))

Maintenance and fixes

- Fix Numba deprecation errors and incorrect nopython usage ([2268](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2268))

Documentation

- Rerun Numba notebook

New features

- Add InferenceData<->DataTree conversion functions ([2253](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2253))
- Bayes Factor plot: Use arviz's kde instead of the one from scipy ([2237](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2237))
- InferenceData objects can now be appended to existing netCDF4 files and to specific groups within them ([2227](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2227))
- Added facade functions `az.to_zarr` and `az.from_zarr` ([2236](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2236))

Maintenance and fixes

- Replace deprecated np.product with np.prod ([2249](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2249))
- Fix numba deprecation warning ([2246](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2246))
- Fixes for creating numpy object array ([2233](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2233) and [2239](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2239))
- Adapt histograms generated by plot_dist to input dtype ([2247](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2247))

New features

Maintenance and fixes

- Fix memory usage and improve efficiency in `from_emcee` ([2215](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2215))
- Lower pandas version needed ([2217](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2217))

Deprecation

Documentation

- Update documentation for various plots ([2208](https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/pull/2208))