Add the feature contribution argument output as an option at predict #39
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Add the option to call lightGBM.Booster.predict(...., pred_contrib=True)
This generates an output with the number of columns = the number distribution arguments * (number of features + 1).
Output is converted to a multi-index column of two levels, distribution args and feature contributions (and Constant)
Unit test added for pred_contributions to test if when you sum up all contributions and apply response function you get the same result as when predicting the parameters.
I also noticed that when predicting sampling is always applied even if we are returning an output that does not require sampling. This must make predictions a little slower on larger data sets. As such I moved the sampling code so it only gets called when required.