Citation

If you use mltpy in scientific work, please cite both the underlying methodology and the package.

mltpy (software)

@software{mltpy,
  author  = {Kruse, Ren{\'e}-Marcel},
  title   = {mltpy: Conditional Transformation Models in Python},
  year    = {2026},
  url     = {https://github.com/RMKruse/mltpy},
  version = {0.4.0},
}

Methodology

Most Likely Transformations — the R mlt package and the JSS paper:

@article{hothorn2020mlt,
  author  = {Hothorn, Torsten},
  title   = {Most Likely Transformations: The mlt Package},
  journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
  volume  = {92},
  number  = {1},
  pages   = {1--68},
  year    = {2020},
  doi     = {10.18637/jss.v092.i01},
}

Conditional transformation models (original framework):

@article{hothorn2014conditional,
  author  = {Hothorn, Torsten and Kneib, Thomas and B{\"u}hlmann, Peter},
  title   = {Conditional Transformation Models},
  journal = {Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B
             (Statistical Methodology)},
  volume  = {76},
  number  = {1},
  pages   = {3--27},
  year    = {2014},
  doi     = {10.1111/rssb.12017},
}

Most Likely Transformations (theory):

@article{hothorn2018most,
  author  = {Hothorn, Torsten and M{\"o}st, Lisa and B{\"u}hlmann, Peter},
  title   = {Most Likely Transformations},
  journal = {Scandinavian Journal of Statistics},
  volume  = {45},
  number  = {1},
  pages   = {110--134},
  year    = {2018},
  doi     = {10.1111/sjos.12291},
}