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Register weighted-microdata rules: weights aren't values

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Dal 14/10/2026.

  • #3938 di @anth-volk — aperta

Valutazione

Difficoltà
4/5
Tempo stimato
3-5 giorni
Idoneità per principianti
18/100
Tipo di issue
Funzionalità
Chiarezza
Abbastanza chiara
Stato di attività
Attiva
Stack tecnologico
python
Ambito
api, data

Direzione di ricerca

The work is registering four rules in rules/registry.toml plus AST guards for the shapes they describe. Read the issue's list of rule IDs and the cited Simulation API line first, then check whether linked pull request #3938 already covers them, since it is still open. Done means the three guarded rules are enforced with no findings on the current code, and the doc-only rule is registered.

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Descrizione

Problem

A weighted MicroSeries or MicroDataFrame weights every .sum(), .mean() and .count(). Aggregating a weight column through one weights it by itself, and returns the sum of squared weights.

That happened in the Simulation API (PolicyEngine/policyengine-sim-api#766, fixed by PolicyEngine/policyengine-sim-api#767). budget.households was about 10^4 times too high on every run, and its test missed it because it used plain pd.DataFrames.

Once the unused economy comparison module is removed, nothing in the Public API handles microdata. Nothing stops new code from making the same mistake, though.

Proposal

Phase 1 step 1.9. Register the rule that weights aren't values, plus AST guards for the shapes a source check can recognise, in rules/registry.toml:

  • api.microdata.weights-not-values (doc-only): weights, values, labels and counts each allow different operations.
  • api.microdata.weights-not-aggregated-as-values: a weight is never the value of a weighted MicroSeries, the variable of a weighted aggregator, or frame[<weight>] followed by a weighted reduction.
  • api.microdata.weight-stripping-confined: raw values (np.array, .values, .to_numpy() and so on) are read from weighted microdata only in a designated module. None is designated yet.
  • api.microdata.unweighted-series-are-labels: a MicroSeries built without weights= is only a grouping or filter key.

The aggregation rule's proof is the real pre-#767 Simulation API line. With no current code in scope, all three guarded rules start enforced, with no findings.

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Merge medio
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