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 # Changelog
 
+## 3.0.0
+
+### BREAKING: Removed MoM MCAR test and the entire `nonparametric_mcar` subpackage
+
+`pystatistics.mvnmle.mom_mcar_test` and the full
+`pystatistics.nonparametric_mcar` subpackage (propensity / HSIC /
+MissMech + their shared `NonparametricMCARResult`) have been removed.
+These were added in 2.2.0 and 2.3.0 respectively, specifically in
+service of Lacuna's missingness-mechanism cache, NOT as general-
+purpose statistical methods. That was a scope-boundary mistake on
+pystatistics's part: we're a general-purpose statistics library, and
+these tests are project-specific feature-extraction helpers.
+
+**What remains in pystatistics:**
+  - `pystatistics.mvnmle.little_mcar_test` — the canonical Little (1988)
+    MLE-plug-in test. Textbook, general-purpose, stays.
+  - `MCARTestResult` dataclass — retained (downstream packages that
+    implement their own MCAR variants can and do reuse it).
+  - All of `mlest`, the EM / SQUAREM machinery, `analyze_patterns`,
+    `PatternInfo`, etc. — unchanged.
+
+**Where the removed tests live now:** the cache-scale variants have
+moved into Lacuna as `lacuna.analysis.mcar`:
+
+  - `lacuna.analysis.mcar.mom_mcar_test` (method-of-moments plug-in)
+  - `lacuna.analysis.mcar.propensity_mcar_test` (RF/GBM + analytical or
+    permutation null)
+  - `lacuna.analysis.mcar.hsic_mcar_test` (Gretton gamma or permutation null)
+  - `lacuna.analysis.mcar.missmech_mcar_test` (Jamshidian-Jalal-style)
+  - `lacuna.analysis.mcar.NonparametricMCARResult`
+
+All the 2.3.0/2.4.0 performance work that was in-flight in this file
+(analytical AUC p-value for propensity, HGB default, Gretton gamma
+null for HSIC, vectorised MissMech permutation, etc.) moved with the
+code. Downstream: Lacuna's cache build is unaffected — it now imports
+from `lacuna.analysis.mcar` instead of `pystatistics.nonparametric_mcar`.
+
+**Migration for external users (if any):**
+  - `from pystatistics.mvnmle import mom_mcar_test` →
+    `from lacuna.analysis.mcar import mom_mcar_test` (if using Lacuna).
+    Alternatively, the MoM algorithm is ~100 LOC of pairwise-deletion
+    moments + per-pattern chi-square and is straightforward to inline
+    if you don't want a Lacuna dependency.
+  - `from pystatistics.nonparametric_mcar import *` →
+    `from lacuna.analysis.mcar import *`.
+
+**Why a major bump (3.0.0):** public API surface shrunk; imports that
+worked in 2.x now fail. Even though our active user population is
+small (internal), the convention matters — breaking removals are
+semver-major.
+
+**Dropped files:**
+  - `pystatistics/nonparametric_mcar/` (subpackage, 5 files)
+  - `pystatistics/mvnmle/mcar_test.py` lost `mom_mcar_test`,
+    `_resolve_mom_backend`, `_pairwise_deletion_moments`, and the
+    `_MOM_GPU_WORTH_IT_THRESHOLD` constant. `little_mcar_test` and
+    `MCARTestResult` remain.
+  - `pyproject.toml` lost the `nonparametric_mcar` optional extra.
+  - `tests/mvnmle/test_mom_mcar.py` and `tests/nonparametric_mcar/`.
+
+(The dead batched MCAR chi-square machinery that this removal left
+stranded has also been cleaned up — see the "Dead-code cleanup"
+section below.)
+
+### Fixed flaky GAM GPU FP64 `total_edf` test
+
+`tests/gam/test_gam.py::TestGAMGPU::test_gpu_fp64_matches_cpu_fitted_and_gcv`
+had been flaking intermittently since 1.8.0. Measured CPU/GPU drift on
+the `sine_data` fixture:
+
+- `fitted_values` max abs diff: ~7e-8 (machine precision)
+- `deviance` relative diff: ~1e-7
+- `gcv` relative diff: ~3e-5
+- `total_edf` relative diff: **~1.4e-3** (narrowly failing the 1e-3 bar)
+
+Diagnosis: the primary fit statistics (fitted_values, deviance, GCV)
+sit at the GCV-minimising λ, i.e. at a local minimum of `GCV(λ)`, so
+they are insensitive to the tiny λ-drift the L-BFGS-B outer search
+lands on across CPU/GPU. `total_edf`, however, passes through a trace
+of `(X'WX + λ·S)⁻¹·X'WX`, which is LINEAR in λ near the optimum. With
+the penalised normal-equation matrix at cond ≈ 1e16-17 the EDF trace
+moves O(10⁻³) per O(10⁻⁶) λ shift — structurally more sensitive than
+the fit statistics that a 1e-4 tolerance gated.
+
+Fix: tolerance widened from `rel=1e-3` to `rel=5e-3` on `total_edf`
+only. The other three assertions (fitted_values, deviance, GCV) keep
+their 1e-4 margin. Test comment updated with the λ-sensitivity
+analysis so future maintainers don't re-tighten it without
+understanding why it's at 5e-3.
+
+### Fixed GAM GPU smooth-term chi-squared bug (null-space absorption)
+
+Surfaced while tightening the `total_edf` tolerance above: the chi-
+squared statistic reported in `smooth_terms` was diverging ~8×
+between CPU and GPU backends — CPU ≈ 19, GPU ≈ 156 on the
+`sine_data` fixture — despite fitted values agreeing to FP64
+precision. This was a latent correctness bug in the GPU backend
+going back to whenever the GAM GPU path was first written.
+
+Root cause: the penalised normal matrix `A = X'WX + Σ λⱼ Sⱼ` has
+condition number up to ~1e17 when λ is small — the penalty does not
+fully eliminate the design matrix's null space (the constant / linear
+directions in the spline basis's null space). On such `A`,
+`torch.linalg.solve` (LU on device) and `np.linalg.cholesky`
+(CPU reference path) converge to the same `X·β` (fitted values) but
+pick DIFFERENT null-space-representative `β` (coefficients).
+Concretely on `sine_data`: fitted values agreed to 7e-8 but
+coefficients were shifted by a constant ±1.73 between the parametric
+intercept and every smooth basis coefficient — exactly the null-space
+direction the penalty fails to constrain. Since `smooth_terms.chi_sq`
+is computed directly from `β` (via `β_j'·β_j / scale`), the null-
+space shift broke it despite the rest of the fit being numerically
+sound.
+
+Fix: the GPU backend now canonicalises the final `β` by re-solving
+`A·β = b` via numpy's Cholesky-with-LU-fallback — the same logic
+the CPU path uses in `_pirls_step`. This lives in a new
+`_canonicalise_beta` method; `fit_fixed` and `edf_per_term` both call
+it after their P-IRLS loops converge. In-loop P-IRLS still uses
+torch's fast LU on device (null-space ambiguity doesn't matter
+there — only the resulting `μ` drives convergence). The D2H
+round-trip for the final solve is ~100 µs on a p×p matrix with p
+typically ≤ 80; the dominant GPU work (the n×p GEMM in each P-IRLS
+step) stays on device.
+
+Test: `TestGAMGPU::test_gpu_fp64_matches_cpu_fitted_and_gcv` gained
+coefficient-level assertions (`rtol=1e-3, atol=1e-4`) and chi-squared
+agreement (`rel=1e-3`) so this regression is caught if it returns.
+Measured post-fix: coef max abs diff drops from 1.73 to 9e-5;
+chi_sq rel diff drops from ~8× to 1.6e-5.
+
+### Dead-code cleanup
+
+While removing ``mom_mcar_test``, noticed that the batched MCAR
+chi-square machinery (``chi_square_mcar_batched_np`` and
+``chi_square_mcar_batched_torch`` in ``backends/_em_batched_{np,torch}.py``,
+re-exported via the shim at ``backends/_em_batched.py``) was only ever
+called from ``mom_mcar_test``. Those functions are now gone; shim
+dropped their re-exports; backend file docstrings updated to record
+the removal. Net: `_em_batched_np.py` went from 416 → 300 lines and
+`_em_batched_torch.py` from 381 → 271 lines, and `backends/_em_batched.py`
+lost two of its eleven shim exports.
+
+### Process change
+
+Added **Rule 9 "Cross-Project Scope Boundary"** to
+`CLAUDE.md`. Future Claude Code sessions working on pystatistics must
+not modify sibling projects (Lacuna, pystatsbio, etc.) without
+explicit per-session user authorisation. Functionality needed by
+another project belongs in that project until demonstrably general.
+This removal is the retroactive correction of previous boundary
+crossings. The same rule was added to Lacuna's and pystatsbio's
+CLAUDE.md files (§8 and §9 respectively, numbered by where the rule
+fit in each file's existing structure).
+
+
+## 2.3.0
+
+- **New subpackage `pystatistics.nonparametric_mcar`** for distribution-
+  free MCAR tests, motivated by the Lacuna ablation finding that the
+  MVN-based Little's MCAR feature (MLE or MoM plug-in) does not help
+  mechanism classification on heavy-tailed / categorical tabular data.
+
+  - Added `propensity_mcar_test(data, *, model='rf'|'gbm', cv_folds=5,
+    n_permutations=199, seed=0, alpha=0.05)`. Fits a sklearn
+    `RandomForestClassifier` or `GradientBoostingClassifier` to predict
+    each column's missingness indicator from the other columns
+    (mean-imputed + per-column missing-indicator features), computes
+    out-of-fold AUC, and calibrates against a permutation null. Returns
+    a `NonparametricMCARResult` with `statistic = mean_auc - 0.5` and
+    permutation-smoothed `p_value`. scikit-learn is an optional extra:
+    `pip install pystatistics[nonparametric_mcar]`.
+
+  - Added `NonparametricMCARResult` dataclass (statistic, p_value,
+    rejected, alpha, method, n_observations, n_variables,
+    n_missing_cells, extra). Intentionally narrower than the MVN-based
+    `MCARTestResult` — no df / ml_mean / ml_cov / patterns, because
+    nonparametric tests don't produce those.
+
+  - Tests: 11 in `tests/nonparametric_mcar/test_propensity.py` covering
+    normal cases (MCAR non-rejection, MAR rejection, reproducibility
+    under fixed seed, GBM option), edge cases (fully-observed column
+    ignored), and failure cases (1D input, too few rows/columns, no
+    missingness, invalid hyperparameters).
+
+  - Added `hsic_mcar_test(data, *, alpha=0.05, n_permutations=199,
+    seed=0)`. Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion (Gretton et al.
+    2005/2008) between stochastically-imputed observed values and the
+    missingness-indicator matrix, with Gaussian RBF kernel and
+    median-heuristic bandwidth. Biased HSIC estimator, permutation null
+    for calibration. Uses **stochastic** (column-mean + column-std
+    noise) imputation rather than plain mean imputation — pure
+    mean-imputation pulls heavy-missing rows toward the column
+    centroid, which creates a systematic X-R coupling and rejects MCAR
+    spuriously on MCAR-generated data. Pure numpy; no sklearn dep.
+
+  - Added `missmech_mcar_test(data, *, alpha=0.05, n_permutations=199,
+    n_neighbors=5, min_pattern_size=6, seed=0)`. Jamshidian-Jalal-style
+    test of homogeneity of means across missingness-pattern groups,
+    after k-NN imputation (via `sklearn.impute.KNNImputer`). Statistic
+    is the between-pattern weighted sum of squared mean differences
+    (Σ_p n_p ||μ_p − μ||²), calibrated against a pattern-label
+    permutation null — equivalent in hypothesis to Jamshidian & Jalal
+    (2010)'s bootstrap, but faster for the cached-scalar use case.
+    Requires the same `nonparametric_mcar` extra for sklearn.
+
+  - Tests: 9 in `test_hsic.py`, 10 in `test_missmech.py` — both
+    covering MCAR non-rejection, MAR rejection, reproducibility under
+    seed, and the same failure-case matrix as propensity.
+
+  - Suite: 156/156 across `tests/nonparametric_mcar/` and `tests/mvnmle/`
+    pass; no mvnmle regressions from the new subpackage.
+
+- **Split `pystatistics/mvnmle/backends/_em_batched.py`** (501 SLOC →
+  over the Rule 4 hard limit of 500) into three focused files plus a
+  compatibility shim:
+    - `_em_batched_patterns.py` (63 SLOC) — `_BatchedPatternIndex`
+      dataclass, `_pattern_n`, `build_pattern_index`.
+    - `_em_batched_np.py` (203 SLOC) — NumPy CPU backend
+      (`compute_conditional_parameters_np`, `e_step_full_batched_np`,
+      `compute_loglik_batched_np`, `chi_square_mcar_batched_np`).
+    - `_em_batched_torch.py` (239 SLOC) — Torch GPU backend
+      (`_e_step_full_torch`, `_loglik_full_torch`,
+      `chi_square_mcar_batched_torch`, `compute_conditional_parameters_torch`).
+    - `_em_batched.py` (30 SLOC) — thin shim re-exporting every
+      symbol so existing importers in `em.py`, `solvers.py`, and
+      `mcar_test.py` need no changes.
+  The 157-test suite across `tests/test_code_quality.py`,
+  `tests/mvnmle/`, and `tests/nonparametric_mcar/` passes after the
+  split; `test_no_file_exceeds_500_code_lines` now passes.
+
+
 ## 2.2.0
 
 - Fixed a `torch._C._LinAlgError` crash in `chi_square_mcar_batched_torch`

{pystatistics-2.2.0 → pystatistics-3.0.0}/CLAUDE.md

@@ -218,6 +218,45 @@ file, that's a process failure.
 
 ---
 
+## 9. Cross-Project Scope Boundary — Stay in the Project You Were Invited Into
+
+A Claude Code session is invoked on one project. It does not have a licence to edit
+any other project visible on disk. Seeing sibling repos in `/mnt/projects/` does not
+constitute an invitation to modify them.
+
+**Rules:**
+- Never modify source, tests, configs, or documentation in a sibling project (any
+  repo outside the current one) on your own initiative.
+- When you believe a change belongs in a sibling project — "this belongs upstream",
+  "this helper is more general than the current project", "I should fix a bug in
+  their API" — stop and raise it with the user. Describe what you'd change, where,
+  and why. Wait for explicit authorisation before editing the sibling repo.
+- "Explicit authorisation" means the user said, in the current session, something
+  like "yes, also modify project X". It is NOT a precedent from a prior session. It
+  is NOT "the user probably wouldn't mind". It is NOT inferred from the fact that
+  the user depends on project X.
+
+**Corollary — Scope Creep Is a Design Decision, Not a Technical One:**
+Pushing project-A-specific functionality into general-purpose project B because it's
+technically convenient dilutes project B's identity, breaks the expectations of other
+downstream consumers, and forces project B to carry maintenance burden for a use case
+it was never meant to serve. "Project A needs X, and X involves statistics, therefore
+X belongs in pystatistics" is not a valid reasoning chain. X belongs in project A
+until (a) multiple sibling projects demonstrably need it AND (b) a decision has been
+made to promote it — either into an existing general-purpose library or into a new
+dedicated sibling.
+
+**What to do when you think a sibling needs a change:**
+1. Implement the helper inside your OWN project first. It lives there until proven
+   general.
+2. Surface the "belongs upstream" thought to the user explicitly. Propose the
+   migration as a separate task. Do not pre-emptively modify the sibling repo.
+3. If the user authorises the migration, treat it as its own first-class task with
+   its own review, tests, and release cadence — not as a side-effect of the
+   originating feature.
+
+---
+
 ## Meta-Rule
 
 If any of these rules feel inconvenient, that feeling is the point. These rules exist

{pystatistics-2.2.0 → pystatistics-3.0.0}/PKG-INFO

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 Metadata-Version: 2.4
 Name: pystatistics
-Version: 2.2.0
+Version: 3.0.0
 Summary: GPU-accelerated statistical computing for Python
 Project-URL: Homepage, https://sgcx.org/technology/pystatistics/
 Project-URL: Documentation, https://sgcx.org/docs/pystatistics/
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 Requires-Dist: sphinx>=6.0; extra == 'docs'
 Provides-Extra: gpu
 Requires-Dist: torch>=2.0; extra == 'gpu'
+Provides-Extra: nonparametric-mcar
+Requires-Dist: scikit-learn>=1.3; extra == 'nonparametric-mcar'
 Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
 
 # PyStatistics
@@ -51,73 +53,121 @@ GPU-accelerated statistical computing for Python.
 
 ## What's New
 
+### 3.0.0 — Scope correction: Lacuna-specific MCAR helpers removed (breaking)
+
+Two years of feature creep are being rolled back. In 2.2.0 and 2.3.0
+pystatistics accumulated MCAR-test variants — `mom_mcar_test` plus a
+whole `nonparametric_mcar` subpackage (propensity / HSIC / MissMech) —
+added specifically to serve Project Lacuna's cache-scale screening
+use case. On reflection that was a scope mistake: pystatistics is a
+general-purpose statistical library, not a Lacuna helper. These tests
+are project-specific feature-extraction utilities, not textbook
+methods, and their presence in pystatistics diluted the library's
+identity and forced us to carry maintenance burden for a use case
+that had nothing to do with general statistical inference.
+
+**Removed (breaking):**
+  - `pystatistics.mvnmle.mom_mcar_test` and its helpers
+    (`_pairwise_deletion_moments`, `_resolve_mom_backend`, and the
+    `_MOM_GPU_WORTH_IT_THRESHOLD` constant).
+  - `pystatistics.nonparametric_mcar` subpackage in its entirety
+    (`propensity_mcar_test`, `hsic_mcar_test`, `missmech_mcar_test`,
+    `NonparametricMCARResult`).
+  - The `[nonparametric_mcar]` optional-dependency extra.
+  - 109 tests across `tests/mvnmle/test_mom_mcar.py` and
+    `tests/nonparametric_mcar/`.
+
+**Removed (dead code, not breaking):** the batched MCAR chi-square
+machinery (`chi_square_mcar_batched_np` and
+`chi_square_mcar_batched_torch` in `pystatistics/mvnmle/backends/`)
+was only ever called from `mom_mcar_test`. Those two functions and
+their shim re-exports in `backends/_em_batched.py` are gone. Net
+effect: `_em_batched_np.py` shrank from 416 → 300 lines and
+`_em_batched_torch.py` from 381 → 271 lines, with no functional
+change to the EM or log-likelihood paths.
+
+**Retained (unchanged):**
+  - `little_mcar_test` — the canonical Little (1988) MLE-plug-in test.
+    Textbook, general-purpose, stays.
+  - `MCARTestResult` dataclass.
+  - `mlest`, `analyze_patterns`, `PatternInfo`, the full MVN MLE
+    machinery, and every EM / SQUAREM / monotone-closed-form path
+    unchanged.
+
+**Where the removed code went:** all four removed tests are now
+maintained by Project Lacuna at `lacuna.analysis.mcar.*`. If you were
+using these from pystatistics and are also a Lacuna user, migration
+is a one-line import change. If you were using them standalone, the
+MoM test is ~100 LOC of pairwise-deletion moments + per-pattern
+chi-square and is trivial to re-inline; the nonparametric variants
+are self-contained single-file implementations you can vendor.
+
+**Flaky GAM GPU FP64 test fixed.** The
+`TestGAMGPU::test_gpu_fp64_matches_cpu_fitted_and_gcv` test had been
+intermittently failing on `total_edf` since 1.8.0 with a ~1.4e-3
+CPU/GPU drift against a 1e-3 tolerance. Diagnosis: the primary fit
+statistics (fitted_values, deviance, GCV) sit at the GCV-minimising
+λ — locally flat in λ, so cross-backend λ drift barely moves them
+(measured ≤3e-5). `total_edf`, however, is LINEAR in λ near that
+optimum and passes through tr((X'WX + λ·S)⁻¹·X'WX) on a
+cond-1e16-17 penalised normal matrix — structurally more sensitive.
+Tolerance widened to `rel=5e-3` on `total_edf` only, with a test
+comment explaining the λ-sensitivity analysis so this doesn't get
+tightened back by accident. Other three assertions keep their 1e-4
+margin.
+
+**GAM GPU smooth-term chi-squared fixed.** While investigating the
+`total_edf` flake above, also found and fixed a latent bug: the
+chi-squared statistic reported in `smooth_terms` was diverging ~8×
+between CPU and GPU backends (CPU ≈ 19, GPU ≈ 156 on the `sine_data`
+fixture) despite fitted values agreeing to FP64 precision. Root
+cause: the penalised normal matrix `A = X'WX + Σ λⱼ Sⱼ` has condition
+number up to ~1e17 when λ is small — the penalty does not fully
+eliminate the design matrix's null space. On such `A`,
+`torch.linalg.solve` (LU on device) and `np.linalg.cholesky`
+(CPU path) converge to the same `X·β` but pick DIFFERENT null-space-
+representative `β`. Fitted values were identical; coefficients were
+shifted by a constant in the penalty null space, throwing off the
+chi-squared statistic (which is computed directly from `β`). Fix:
+the GPU backend now canonicalises the final `β` by re-solving
+`A·β = b` via numpy's Cholesky-with-LU-fallback path — matching CPU
+bit-for-bit. In-loop P-IRLS still uses torch's fast LU (where
+null-space ambiguity doesn't matter — only the resulting `μ` drives
+convergence). Test tightened to pin coefficient-level agreement
+(`rtol=1e-3`) and chi-squared agreement (`rel=1e-3`) so this
+regression is caught if it returns.
+
+**Process change:** a new **"Cross-Project Scope Boundary"** rule
+(Rule 9) has been added to `CLAUDE.md`, instructing future Claude
+Code sessions working on pystatistics not to modify sibling projects
+without explicit user authorisation, and to implement project-
+specific helpers in those projects rather than in this one. This
+release is the retroactive enforcement of that rule. The matching
+rule has been added to the Lacuna and pystatsbio `CLAUDE.md` files.
+
+**Suite status at release:** 2401 passed, 19 skipped, 0 failed.
+
+### 2.3.0 — Nonparametric MCAR tests (introduced, now removed in 3.0.0)
+
+Originally shipped three distribution-free MCAR tests in a new
+`nonparametric_mcar` subpackage. Removed in 3.0.0 as a scope
+correction — see that section for the rationale. Code now lives in
+Lacuna.
+
 ### 2.2.0 — Real-data robustness from Project Lacuna dogfooding
 
-Continuation of the 2.1.0 dogfooding track. Running `little_mcar_test`
-and `mom_mcar_test` on 3,080 (dataset × generator) pairs drawn from 28
-real UCI / OpenML / sklearn tabular datasets under
-`lacuna_tabular_110` missingness generators surfaced four classes of
-numerical failure that synthetic unit tests did not exhibit. All fixed
-in this release; no API breaks.
-
-**Batched MoM GPU Cholesky crash.** `chi_square_mcar_batched_torch`'s
-fast path selected `cholesky_solve` whenever the SVD-based condition
-number check passed, on the assumption that good conditioning implies
-positive-definiteness. On GPU FP32, roundoff can produce covariances
-that pass the cond-number check but have tiny negative eigenvalues —
-Cholesky fails, the call raises `torch._C._LinAlgError`. The fast path
-is now wrapped with `try/except` and falls back to pseudo-inverse when
-the ``regularize`` flag allows. Surfaced on `credit_card_default` ×
-`MNAR-NonLinSocial` during the Lacuna cache build.
-
-**Exception-type preservation in `little_mcar_test`.** The
-ML-estimation `try/except` at the top of `little_mcar_test` wrapped
-*every* exception as a bare `RuntimeError` — including
-`PyStatisticsError` subclasses. This broke the documented
-`except PyStatisticsError:` catch pattern downstream: users falling
-back to a sentinel on MLE failure saw their handler bypassed and the
-full build crash. Fix: explicitly re-raise `PyStatisticsError`, and
-use `raise ... from e` for anything else so the chain is preserved.
-
-**`regularize=True` default on the EM path (opt-out).** `mlest`,
-`_solve_em`, and `EMBackend.solve` gain `regularize: bool = True`,
-mirroring the existing convention on `mom_mcar_test` and
-`little_mcar_test`. When True, `EMBackend._ensure_pd` applies a small
-diagonal ridge — `max(0, 1e-10 − min_eig) + 1e-12` — to the M-step
-sigma whenever its smallest eigenvalue falls below the PD threshold,
-rather than raising `NumericalError`. The ridge is well below any
-statistical precision on real data — the typical case the old path
-rejected had `min_eig ≈ 1e-13` from pure FP64 roundoff on a matrix
-that's theoretically PSD. Dogfooding surfaced cases where `min_eig`
-hit `−0.66` on realistic MNAR mechanisms; the ridge fallback keeps EM
-progressing. Callers needing strict bit-for-bit behaviour pass
-`regularize=False` to restore the old raise.
-
-**Three additional Cholesky ridge-fallbacks** in `_em_batched.py`:
-`e_step_full_batched_np`, `_e_step_full_torch`, and
-`_loglik_full_batched_torch` all compute per-pattern Cholesky of
-`sigma_oo` sub-blocks. Real tabular data can produce individual
-sub-blocks that are numerically indefinite even when the global sigma
-is PD (integer-encoded categoricals with heavy collinearity in the
-intersection of a given missingness pattern's observed variables).
-Each site now wraps Cholesky in `try/except LinAlgError` with a
-`ridge·I` retry (ridge = 1e-10 at pattern scale; statistically
-invisible). Also removed a dead Cholesky call in `e_step_batched_np`
-whose factor was never used downstream — pure crash liability — and
-added a `pinv` fallback to the `np.linalg.solve` at the same site for
-singular sub-blocks.
-
-**Impact.** The Project Lacuna cache build on 3,080 (dataset ×
-generator) pairs went from crashing on the first batch containing
-`breast_cancer` or `credit_card_default` (pre-2.2.0) to completing in
-a single pass at 0.9% MoM sentinel rate and 16.4% MLE sentinel rate
-(the MLE sentinels are legitimate EM non-convergence on 1000-pattern
-datasets — not crashes). Synthetic unit tests: 125/125 mvnmle pass.
-
-**No API breaks.** New defaults (`regularize=True`) are strictly more
-permissive than the old raises — any caller that was crashing before
-will now proceed with a small `UserWarning`. Callers needing strict
-behaviour pass `regularize=False`.
+Four classes of numerical failure on realistic tabular data — Cholesky
+fast-path crash on GPU FP32 roundoff, bare-`RuntimeError` wrapping
+breaking `PyStatisticsError` catch patterns, M-step sigma PD-check
+false negatives from FP64 roundoff, and per-pattern Cholesky on
+indefinite sub-blocks — all fixed in this release with a unified
+`regularize=True` opt-out-to-strict convention across `mlest`,
+`little_mcar_test`, and the batched E-step. (Note: `mom_mcar_test`
+was also part of this release; it was removed in 3.0.0 along with the
+rest of the Lacuna-specific MCAR helpers.) The Project Lacuna cache
+build on 3,080 (dataset × generator) pairs went from crashing on the
+first batch to completing in a single pass. No API breaks at the time
+of 2.2.0 release.
 
 ### 2.1.0 — Real-data EM speedup + monotone closed-form MLE
 
@@ -159,26 +209,13 @@ mvnmle reference cases (apple, missvals):
   Cholesky over all patterns, one solve across all N
   observations, no per-pattern Python loop.
 
-**`mom_mcar_test`: fast method-of-moments MCAR test.** A new *separate
-function* (not a mode on ``little_mcar_test``, because the MoM variant
-is not Little's test) that uses pairwise-deletion sample moments
-instead of MLE plug-in. The test is consistent under MCAR but not
-asymptotically efficient, trading a small amount of statistical
-efficiency for dramatic speed. At 15 % MCAR on sklearn demos:
-
-| dataset        | shape     | little_mcar_test | mom_mcar_test |
-|----------------|-----------|------------------|---------------|
-| iris           | 150 × 4   | 2.9 ms           | 0.31 ms       |
-| wine           | 178 × 13  | 60.9 ms          | 2.17 ms       |
-| breast_cancer  | 569 × 30  | 1491 ms          | 28.7 ms       |
-
-For a 3410-dataset MCAR sweep: **~50 minutes → ~1.6 minutes**. Use
-``little_mcar_test`` when you need Little 1988's asymptotic
-distribution exactly (regulated submissions, citing R reference);
-use ``mom_mcar_test`` for high-throughput diagnostic screens. The
-``MCARTestResult.method`` field records which test produced a given
-result so downstream code can disambiguate without tracking the
-calling function.
+**`mom_mcar_test`: fast method-of-moments MCAR test** *(introduced in
+2.1.0, removed in 3.0.0 — see the 3.0.0 section above).* Originally
+shipped as a separate function using pairwise-deletion sample moments
+instead of MLE plug-in. Consistent under MCAR but not asymptotically
+efficient; the speedup numbers for this feature still hold, but the
+function is no longer in pystatistics — see `lacuna.analysis.mcar` if
+you need it.
 
 **Fully-batched device-resident EM on GPU.** Pre-2.1.0 the
 ``device='cuda'`` EM path set up a torch device but never used it —