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# Statement of need

Critical transitions may occur in many disciplines, including ecology, medicine,
Critical transitions are relevant to many disciplines, including ecology, medicine,
finance, and epidemiology, to name a few. As such, it is important that EWS are made
widely accessible. To my knowledge, there are two other software packages developed for
widely accessible.
To my knowledge, there are two other software packages developed for
computing EWS ([earlywarnings](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/earlywarnings/index.html) by @dakos2012methods,
and
[spatialwarnings](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/spatialwarnings/index.html) by @genin2018monitoring),
both using the R programming language.
Given the recent surge in popularity of the Python programming language [@stanvcin2019overview],
there is need for a Python-based implementation of EWS.
Moreover, `ewstools` implements recently developed methods [@bury2021deep] that make use of deep learning
and packages therein that are native to Python.

Moreover, `ewstools` implements recently developed methods that harness deep learning,
which have outperformed conventional EWS in several model and empirical systems [@bury2021deep].
These new methods should tried and tested for a variety of systems and I hope that this package
facilitates this endeavour.


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