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* If using CASA v5 and above, use instructions [here](http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/install.html) <br/>
e.g., `casa --no-logger --log2term -c "from setuptools.command import easy_install; easy_install.main(['--user', 'pip'])"`<br/>
`casa --no-logger --log2term -c "import pip; pip.main(['install', 'astropy', '--user']); pip.main(['install', 'astroML', '--user']); pip.main(['install', 'jdcal', '--user'])"`
* **analysisUtils** (get it [here](https://casaguides.nrao.edu/index.php?title=Analysis_Utilities))
* (*optional*) For UV plane fitting, **uvmultifit** (get it [here](http://nordic-alma.se/support/software-tools))
* (*optional*) To use object detection,
* **analysisUtils** (get it [here](https://casaguides.nrao.edu/index.php?title=Analysis_Utilities))
* **aegean** (see [here](https://github.com/PaulHancock/Aegean)) <br/>
To install,
`casa --no-logger --log2term -c "import pip; pip.main(['install', 'git+https://github.com/PaulHancock/Aegean.git', '--user'])"`

## If you want to use these scripts on your own machine, you only need,
1. **casa_timing_script.py**: intended to be run within CASA. This is the script that does all the hard work.
* Please create a split MS, with only the target present, for these scripts.
* All parameters need to be carefully considered and changed for each new data set.
* If you have a complicated field with other sources it is recommended that you use your own mask file (with clean boxes around bright sources; mask_option='file') for cleaning, or run object detection, which will create a mask file with a boxed region around each detected source (mask_option='aegean').
* If you are using an outlier field file, please follow the example template in example_outlier_file.txt.
* If you are doing uv fitting, please follow the example inital paramters template in uv_init_example.txt.
* Included in casa_timing_script.py is the option to run basic variability analysis:
* Calculate weighted mean and do a chi^2 with a constant flux model,
* Calculate excess variance,
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