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Why isn't SARIMAX whitelisted from StatsModels?

Is there any reason why SARIMAX isn't whitelisted, but the deprecated ARMA and ARIMA processes are? Would it be possible for that module to be whitelisted?

Also, what about arch_model? I asked about this before and got no response. I would like it to model conditional volatility with a GARCH process.

thanks!

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The current statsmodels version on Quantopian is 0.6.1., SARIMAX is not available in this version (not until 0.8.1). It's not whitelisted because it's not in the version of statsmodels we are running. We need to keep all the different packages in synch and ensure there aren't conflicts. Unfortunately this often means running packages which aren't the latest and greatest. Sorry if this causes any inconvenience.

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Yeah, but like statsmodel 0.6.1 is seven years old...

How would upgrading statsmodel create any conflicts? You can't expect people to develop actual alpha factors using tools that are criminally out-of-date.