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Overview
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The PyMVPA package consists of three major parts: :ref:`Data handling
<datasets>`, :ref:`Classifiers <classifiers>` and various algorithms and
measures that operate on datasets and classifiers.
In the following sections the basic concept of all three parts will be
described and examples using certain parts of the PyMVPA package will be
given.

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   :alt: PyMVPA architecture

