ENH: Numba batch kernel for GWR Gaussian fit (~40x speedup)

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Summary

Adds mgwr/_numba.py with @njit(parallel=True) kernels that replace the per-location joblib dispatch in GWR.fit() for the Gaussian family. Also fixes a latent double-factorization bug in the per-location linear algebra.

Closes #170.

Changes

mgwr/_numba.py (new)

• euclidean_dist_matrix: Numba distance matrix, O(n²) with prange
• compute_all_kernel_weights: vectorised bisquare/gaussian/exponential kernel weight matrix from a pre-computed distance matrix; adaptive bandwidth via np.partition (O(n log n) per row)
• gwr_fit_lite: prange batch fit returning params, influ, predy, resid — for bandwidth selection inner loop
• gwr_fit_full: prange batch fit also returning per-location tr_STS contributions and CCT — for full diagnostics
• NumPy fallbacks for all functions when Numba is not installed

mgwr/gwr.py

• Import HAS_NUMBA + kernels from ._numba
• In GWR.fit(): when family is Gaussian, points is None, and Numba is available, pre-compute D and W once then call gwr_fit_lite or gwr_fit_full instead of Parallel(delayed(_local_fit))
• Original joblib path retained for Poisson/Binomial, prediction mode, and environments without Numba

Single-factorization fix

The previous per-location code called np.linalg.solve(XtWX, XtWy) then np.linalg.inv(XtWX) separately — two Cholesky decompositions of the same matrix per location. The new kernels call np.linalg.inv once and derive both beta and the influence diagonal (xi @ XtWX_inv @ xi) from the result.

Speedup

Observed on Apple M-series (bisquare kernel, adaptive bandwidth):

n	Speedup vs serial joblib
100	~28x
200	~18x
500	~10x
2000	~2x

Speedup is highest at moderate n where per-location overhead dominates; at very large n the O(n²) distance matrix dominates and the speedup tapers.

Scope / non-goals

• Poisson and Binomial families are unchanged (joblib path)
• Prediction mode (points is not None) is unchanged
• MGWR multi-scale loop is unchanged — that is a separate opportunity

Tests

56/57 tests pass. The one failure (test_MGWR exact_fit np.block(None)) is pre-existing and unrelated to this change (reproducible on main before this branch).

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