0.15.0 🌈

🚀 Features

• Add 3D support for ep.pp.miss_forest_impute() (#1052) @sueoglu
• Add 3D support for ep.pp.mice_forest_impute() (#1055) @sueoglu
• Add stratified Table One for baseline comparisons (#1066) @Zethson
• Add CONSORT-style branching for CohortTracker (#1077) @Zethson
• Add 3D & lazy Dask array support for ep.pp.encode() (#1078) @Zethson
• Add in-house causal inference module — ep.tl.iptw(), ep.tl.g_computation(), ep.tl.aipw(), ep.tl.propensity_score_matching(), meta-learners (ep.tl.t_learner() / ep.tl.s_learner() / ep.tl.x_learner()), and ep.tl.covariate_balance() — replacing the dowhy dependency (#1076) @Zethson

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Sparse array support for _warn_imputation_threshold (#1060) @sueoglu

🧰 Maintenance

• Adjust to ehrdata 0.3.0 release, adding anndata 0.13.0 support (#1084) @eroell
• Make ehrdata compatible with anndata>=0.12.13 (#1065) @eroell
• Efficient, dependency-free implementation of the MCAR test (#1056) @agerardy
• Replace EhrapyConfig with scverse-misc Settings (#1070) @Zethson
• Address pandas FutureWarning (#1063) @agerardy
• Remove unused imports, debug prints, and stale TODOs (#1075) @Zethson
• Fix invalid rst roles in installation.md leiden section (#1073) @Zethson
• Improve fate tutorial robustness (#1081) @eroell
• Cache CI datasets and harden against flaky downloads (#1080) @sueoglu
• Mirror scanpy's image-comparison tolerances to fix CPU plotting test failures (#1083) @sueoglu
• Unpin numpy in run_notebooks workflow (#1085) @eroell

💥 Breaking changes

• Drop AnnData compatibility API(#1069) @Zethson
• Drop leidenalg flavor froly)(#1072) @Zethson

Full Changelog: v0.14.0...v0.15.0