Meta Analysis Quarto NoteBook

[AritraDey-Dev]

Description

This PR implements a Quarto notebook for the meta-analysis. It uses the posterior files and trait.data.Rdata to run the Meta Analysis demo. A pecan.xml file is also included to run the workflow.

Motivation and Context

Review Time Estimate

• [ ] Immediately
• [ ] Within one week
• [ ] When possible

Types of changes

• [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• [x] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

Checklist:

• [ ] My change requires a change to the documentation.
• [ ] My name is in the list of CITATION.cff
• [ ] I agree that PEcAn Project may distribute my contribution under any or all of
  • the same license as the existing code,
  • and/or the BSD 3-clause license.
• [x] I have updated the CHANGELOG.md.
• [ ] I have updated the documentation accordingly.
• [ ] I have read the CONTRIBUTING document.
• [ ] I have added tests to cover my changes.
• [ ] All new and existing tests passed.

[AritraDey-Dev]

@mdietze Thanks for the review and the detailed comments. I’ve tried to address and fix the suggested items in the subsequent commits.

[Mayanknishad9]

@mdietze This is a great suggestion. My format_try_for_ma() function (PR #3720 ) creates the trait_data dataframe from TRY exports that could feed directly into such a simplified MA function.

If the MA module is refactored as you suggest, users could:

1. Use format_try_for_ma() to convert TRY data to proper format
2. Pass that dataframe directly to a simplified run_meta_analysis() function
3. Bypass the complex settings object entirely

This would make PEcAn's meta-analysis much more accessible to researchers with external data sources.