Installation Instructions
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parmest is included in Pyomo (pyomo/contrib/parmest).
To run parmest, you will need Python version 3.x along with 
various Python package dependencies and the IPOPT software 
library for non-linear optimization.

Python package dependencies
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#. numpy
#. pandas
#. pyomo
#. mpisppy (optional)
#. matplotlib (optional)
#. scipy.stats (optional)
#. seaborn (optional)
#. mpi4py.MPI (optional)

IPOPT
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IPOPT can be downloaded from https://projects.coin-or.org/Ipopt. 

Testing
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The following commands can be used to test parmest::
  
   cd pyomo/contrib/parmest/tests
   python test_parmest.py