feat!: name the unknown key, expose tail probabilities, flag short fits
Three issues from two downstream consumers, all small, all sharing a theme: the crate had the information and would not hand it over. #44 — `UnknownKey { team: 0, member: 0 }` did not say which key. A consumer upgrading 0.1.2 -> 0.4.1 had every one of 5591 predictions return this error, fell back to a neutral 0.5, and lost its entire metadata model for a day. Nothing crashed and nothing logged; it was found by sweeping an unrelated parameter and noticing the output did not move. The 0.4.0 change that made unknown keys an error was right — the error was just too anonymous to act on. It now carries the key's `Debug` rendering, and its `Display` says what to do about it. The precondition is documented on every prediction entry point, which the reporter said would alone have saved the day. #43 — `cdf` was `pub(crate)`, so a consumer asking "is this competitor below the cutoff" approximated it with a `mu + z * sigma` band and had no way to say what confidence any `z` bought. Adds `Gaussian::probability_below` / `probability_above`. The second is separate on purpose: `1 - cdf` collapses to exactly zero past ~8.3 sigma, and a stopping rule is evaluated precisely there. Both route through the survival function added in 0.4.1, so this is visibility rather than new numerics. #50 — `ConvergenceReport` was not `#[must_use]`, so the one signal that a fit stopped short was trivially discarded. It now is, and that immediately found 78 sites doing exactly that — including this crate's own ATP example, which was capped at 10 sweeps when the history needs 30. The example now reads the report and says so. `ITERATIONS = 30` is documented as the floor it is, with the three measurements to hand: 400 events over 100 competitors already stops there at ~7e-3 against a 1e-6 tolerance, the ATP example needs 30 at a much looser one, and a consumer's 2000-node model needs 76 to 161. BREAKING CHANGE: `InferenceError::UnknownKey` gains a `key` field, and the prediction methods now require `K: Debug` in order to fill it. Closes #43, #50. Refs #44 — its third ask, an opt-in `UnknownKeys::Skip` mode, is a live API question and deliberately not answered here. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011hcFjNDmHXZF8URGLku5zZ
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@@ -50,7 +50,17 @@ pub enum InferenceError {
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///
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/// Reported rather than skipped: dropping unknown keys turns a team of
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/// strangers into a confident-looking probability about nobody.
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UnknownKey { team: usize, member: usize },
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///
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/// `key` is the offending key's `Debug` rendering. It is carried because
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/// the indices alone are not actionable: a caller that logs
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/// `UnknownKey { team: 0, member: 0 }` learns nothing about *which* of its
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/// keys the history has not seen, and the natural handling — fall back to a
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/// neutral value — turns the whole thing into a plausible constant.
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UnknownKey {
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team: usize,
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member: usize,
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key: String,
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},
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/// A prediction was given a team with no members.
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EmptyTeam { team: usize },
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/// Fewer than two teams were supplied to a prediction.
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@@ -108,10 +118,12 @@ impl fmt::Display for InferenceError {
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"competitor {competitor}: this batch sets {field} to two different values"
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)
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}
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Self::UnknownKey { team, member } => {
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Self::UnknownKey { team, member, key } => {
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write!(
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f,
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"team {team}, member {member}: no skill recorded for this key"
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"team {team}, member {member}: no skill recorded for key {key} \
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(every key must already be known to the history; pre-filter \
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with `lookup` or `current_skill` if that is not guaranteed)"
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)
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}
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Self::EmptyTeam { team } => {
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