Version: 2.9.7
Date: 2025-01-14
Category: under the hood
Text: adapted reference output for new startupmsg

Version: 2.9.7
Date: 2025-01-14
Category: under the hood
Text: converted encoding to UTF-8

Version: 2.9.7
Date: 2025-01-14
Category: under the hood
Text: transformed CITATION file to new format, i.e., bibentry() instead
        of citEntry(), c(as.person( .... ), as.person( .... ), ...),
        instead of as.personList(....)

Version: 2.9.6
Date: 2024-10-23
Category: under the hood
Text:

Version: 2.9.6
Date: 2024-10-23
Category: minor glitch in usage section of help to fiCov
Text:

Version: 2.9.4
Date: 2024-09-03
Category: under the hood
Text:

Version: 2.9.4
Date: 2024-09-03
Category: fixes an issue as to version discrepancies in distrEx,
        RandVar, and distrMod as
Text:

Version: 2.9.4
Date: 2024-09-03
Category: to comparisons with reference output
Text:

Version: 2.9.3
Date: 2024-08-30
Category: under the hood
Text:

Version: 2.9.3
Date: 2024-08-30
Category: fixed two off-going \link{} targets to qqbounds (with missing
        package anchors)
Text:

Version: 2.9.3
Date: 2024-08-30
Category: in Rd files to qqplot() and returnlevelplot
Text:

Version: 2.9.2
Category: under the hood
Text:

Version: 2.9.2
Category: with the help of K. Hornik identified spurious, platform
        dependent LF/CR issue
Text:

Version: 2.9.2
Category: and capsulated calls to infoShow() in Rd files by
Text: ## IGNORE_RDIFF_BEGIN ## IGNORE_RDIFF_END

Version: 2.9.1
Date: 2024-02-01
Category: bug fixes
Text: fixed some documentation glitches in internal .Rd files

Version: 2.9.0
Date: 2022-11-16
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: as proposed by M. Kohl: new aliases NormFamily for
        NormLocationScaleFamily, LogisticFamily for
        LogisticLocationScaleFamily, CauchyFamily for
        CauchyLocationScaleFamily,

Version: 2.8.5
Date: 2022-06-14
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: replaced obsolete URLs to JSS papers by respective DOIs

Version: 2.8.5
Date: 2022-06-14
Category: under the hood
Text: in reply to request by K. Horning 20220613, changed help to
        confint-methods, no longer using \value{...}

Version: 2.8.4
Date: 2020-03-10
Category: under the hood
Text: adapted S4-method setAs to coerce from MCEstimate to class
        stats4::mle after stats::mle4 changed its slot structure

Version: 2.8.3
Date: 2020-01-19
Category: under the hood
Text: inserted another ## IGNORE_RDIFF_BEGIN comment to prevent NOTES
        when comparing R.out.save to R.out on varying architectures,
        e.g. Rblas/ATLAS in isKerAinKerB

Version: 2.8.2
Date: 2019-05-02
Category: under the hood
Text: inserted some ## IGNORE_RDIFF_BEGIN comments to prevent NOTES
        when comparing R.out.save to R.out on varying architectures,
        e.g. Rblas/ATLAS

Version: 2.8.1
Date: 2019-04-07
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: revised code to delete fuzz when checking the
        centering/consistency of L2deriv varying from -- relative
        accuracy is now determined by the size of FI

Version: 2.8.1
Date: 2019-04-07
Category: under the hood
Text: introduce S3 class "relMatrix" (and S3 method print.relMatrix) to
        capture the fact that when computing relative differences in
        consistency matrices, some entries in the denominator may be 0;
        in order to avoid output of Inf / NaN we catch the output and
        replace such entries by "."

Version: 2.8
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: require more recent versions of distr, distrEx

Version: 2.8
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: plot methods now return an S3 object of class
        \code{c("plotInfo","DiagnInfo")}, i.e., a list containing the
        information needed to produce the respective plot, which at a
        later stage could be used by different graphic engines (like,
        e.g.  \code{ggplot}) to produce the plot in a different
        framework. A more detailed description will follow in a
        subsequent version.

Version: 2.8
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: DESCRIPTION tag SVNRevision changed to VCS/SVNRevision

Version: 2.8
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: "cleverer parsing of dots" in M[L,C,D]Estimator: Triggered by an
        error observed by Kornelius Rohmeyer, we now parse the dots
        (...) argument of M[L,C,D]Estimator a little more closely and
        filter out obvious clashes: We filter out taboo arguments
        (causing clashes with formals in optim/optimize and calling
        arguments); from the remaining ones only [exactly] _named_
        arguments of the optimizer (optim/optimize) and those matching
        either exactly arguments of the criterion or all remaining ones
        (if ... is a formal of the criterion) are passed on: This way,
        one can, if desired, do evaluation-wise validity checks in the
        criterion.

Version: 2.8
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: For diagnostic purposes, MCEstimate-class gains a slot
        optimReturn (of class "ANY" and filled by NULL by default)
        which is filled by the return value of the optimizer in
        "mceCalc" -- it has a corresponding accessor

Version: 2.8
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: distinguish three cases for CvMMDEstimator selected by argument
        muDatOrMod = c("Dat","Mod", "Other"): in case "Dat", mu = emp.
        cdf (default), in case "Mod", mu = current best fit model
        distribution, and in case "Other" one has to supply an
        integration probability mu.  => consistency between estimate
        and asyCov

Version: 2.8
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: added some theory/references to help file to MD estimators

Version: 2.8
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: the L2derivatives of the SimpleL2ParamFamilies and the
        L2GroupFamilies now respect restrictions in the support of the
        underlying distribution: the L2derivatives are 0 whenever the
        argument x has liesInSupport(distribution,x, checkFin = TRUE)
        == FALSE (i.e., in discrete distiributions, with a more refined
        version, extending the checking of the numerically truncated
        support).

Version: 2.8
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: new model classes / generators LogisticLocationScaleFamily,
        CauchyLocationFamily

Version: 2.8
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: changed default for CvMMDEstiamtor to variant "Mod" (consistent
        to fitdistrplus)

Version: 2.8
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: more precise / explicit description of the requirements of slots
        L2deriv and L2deriv.fct in the help files to generator
        L2ParamFamily and to L2ParamFamily-class.

Version: 2.8
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: E() methods with signature(object = "L2ParamFamily" , ...) gain
        argument diagnostic (like E()-methods in distrEx v 2.8.0)

Version: 2.8
Category: bug fixes
Text: discovered some issues with local variables in L2Families (global
        values were used instead...)

Version: 2.8
Category: bug fixes
Text: default for asCov of CvMMDEstimator was inconsistent: the
        estimator was using emp.cdf, but the asyCov was using mu the
        current best fit model distribution

Version: 2.8
Category: bug fixes
Text: in the wrappers to MDEstimator: CvMMDEstimator,
        KolmogorovMDEstimator, TotalVarMDEstimator,
        HellingerMDEstimator, we had the "wrong" call in slot
        estimate.call

Version: 2.8
Category: bug fixes
Text: show-method for ParamWithShapeFamParameter and MCEstimate did
        unnecessary casting to superclasses hence hid the true class

Version: 2.8
Category: bug fixes
Text: argument distance did not show it came from CvMDist, CvMDist2 via
        CvMMDEstiamtor when unparsed -- now the unparsed argument in
        CvMMDEstimator is called CvMDist0 so shows that it is related
        to CvMDist

Version: 2.8
Category: bug fixes
Text: in fam.fall to NbinomFamily (with two parameters ) we had
        matrix(Tr, dimnames = DN) without specifying nrow and ncol

Version: 2.8
Category: bug fixes
Text: logical of length>1 in if-clause in trafoEst()

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: As this is more for internal purposes, example code for the
        parsing of dots argument is in lines ll 275--334 in
        mleCalc-methods.R (wrapped in a if(FALSE){ }).

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: in code in SimpleL2ParamFamilies.R:

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: param.0 denotes the local current parameter of the L2Family

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: param is used as function argument

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: <paramname>.0 is used in .fct - functions as local variant
        (intern to fct) of the current parameter

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: in the substituted L2deriv.fct, we use <paramname>.1 which is
        substituted for <paramname>.0

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: in case <paramname>.0 is already used otherwise (as in
        NbinomMeanSizeFamily) we use <paramname>.00 instead

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: replaced integration for AbscontDistribution(s) in
        .CvMMDCovariance by integration on quantile scale =>
        CvMMDEstimator now works with variances even for Gamma
        distributions for shape < 1 ...

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: tuned .CvMMDCovariance() in asCvMVarianceQtl.R for speed (like
        with kStepEstimator timings are taken in comment ##-t-##) as
        the function .CvMMDCovariance was much slower than
        .oldCvMMDCovariance for Generalized EVD with Mu Unknown... /
        now they are at equal there

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: revised .CvMMDCovariance() to get more performant for discrete
        distributions / -> thereby corrected an error in the
        intermediate formulae, which by centering/standarizing of the
        IC in the end already cancelled out beforehand... but now we
        are more accurate as to differences in the integration measure
        mu and the model distribution (important for integration w.r.t.
        emp. measure) the revised .CvMMDCovariance() uses vectorization
        in evaluation of random variables and, wherever possible in
        integration; for the latter, this can be suppressed by an
        argument useApply=TRUE through the ... argument in addition
        .CvMMDCovariance() now has argument "diagnostic" (like E()) and
        in calls to E(), the "..." argument is filtered

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: .process.meCalcRes gains arg "x" to be able to pass on emp.CDF
        for mu in CvMMDEstimator if arg asvar.fct of MCEstimator has
        "x" in formals the observations x are passed on to asvar.fct,
        otherwise they are not; correspondingly "x" is passed on to
        .process.meCalcRes in MCEstimator(), MDEstimator(),
        MLEstimator().

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: old .CvMMDCovariance() becomes .oldCvMMDCovariance

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: new wrapper .CvMMDCovarianceWithMux which uses emp cdf as mu

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: new wrappe CvMDist2 which by default uses model distribution as
        mu

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: CvMMDEstimator gains argument muDatOrMod = c("Dat","Mod") to
        distinguish two cases

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: moved code to .[old]CvMMDCovariance from 0distrModUtils.R to new
        file asCvMVarianceQtl.R

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: some fiddeling with the names of MCEstimators: all functions
        MDEstimator, CvMMDEstimator, KolmogorovMDEstimator,
        TotalVarMDEstimator, HellingerMDEstimator, MLEstimator,
        MCEstimator gain an extra argument nmsffx for potential
        suffices to be appended to the estimator name.

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: in MDEstimator with Cramer von Mises distance in case * distance
        == CvMDist && !is.null(mu) -> "( mu = <muname> )" * distance ==
        CvMDist && is.null(mu) -> "( mu = emp. cdf )" * distance ==
        CvMDist2 -> "( mu = model distr. )" is appended to the default
        estimator name

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: similarly in wrapper CvMMDEstimator in case argument 'muDatOrMod'
        is matched to * muDatOrMod=="Dat" -> "( mu = emp. cdf )" *
        muDatOrMod=="Mod" -> "( mu = model distr. )" *
        muDatOrMod=="Other" -> "( mu = <muname> )" is appended to the
        default estimator name

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: based on this tag "( mu = ... )" later on, in pkg RobAStBase, a
        (conditional) coerce method produces the pIC of the MDE by
        means of .CvMMDCovariance[WithMux]

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: new subclasses "MLEstimate", "MDEstimate", "CvMMDEstimate" for
        internal method dispatch

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: (robust) start parameters for Nbinom family with two parameters

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: (robust) start (search) parameters for Poisson family

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: now specified that we want to use distr::solve

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: E() methods with signature(object = "L2ParamFamily" , ...) use
        filtering of dots arguments (like E()-methods in distrEx v
        2.8.0)

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: E methods with signature(object = "L2ParamFamily" , ...) if
        (diagnostic==TRUE) return diagnostic attributes of S3 class
        "DiagnosticClass"

Version: 2.8
Category: under the hood
Text: .CvMMDCovariance() if (diagnostic==TRUE) returns diagnostic
        attributes of S3 class "DiagnosticClass"

Version: 2.7
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: replaced http://CRAN... by https://CRAN... (also in CITATION and
        similar files)

Version: 2.7
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: new wrapper to MDEstimator: CvMMDEstimator,
        KolmogorovMDEstimator, TotalVarMDEstimator,
        HellingerMDEstimator

Version: 2.7
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: exported .CvMMDCovariance in distrMod

Version: 2.7
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: added call to return value of qqplot

Version: 2.7
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: qqplot and returnlevelplot have adopted the same argument naming
        (and selection paradigm) as the other diagnostic plots
        (IC-plot, comparePlot, infoPlot) in pkg RobAStBase: the suffix
        is .lbs instead of .lbl, changed argument name withLab to
        with.lab the attributes of shown points have ending .pts the
        observations are classed into three groups: - the labelled
        observations selected through which.lbs and which.Order - the
        shown non labelled observations (which are not in the previous
        set) selected by which.nonlbs - the non-shown observations (the
        remaining ones not contained in the former 2 grps) -> point
        attributes may either refer to prior selection or to
        post-selection in which case we have .npts variants

Version: 2.7
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: returnlevelplot now accepts a log argument for the y axis
        (helpful for Pareto distributions, see script...)

Version: 2.7
Category: under the hood
Text: wherever possible also use q.l internally instead of q to provide
        functionality in IRKernel

Version: 2.7
Category: under the hood
Text: fixed omegahat.net issue (raised by K.Hornik,(24.10.2016, 18:08)

Version: 2.7
Category: bug fixes
Text: Estimate method for returnlevelplot was passing the wrong xlab

Version: 2.7
Category: bug fixes
Text: the selection mechanism had to be revised (lacked a passage
        through ranks)

Version: 2.6
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: title changed to title style / capitalization

Version: 2.6
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: introduced dropZeroDensity argument to ML estimators

Version: 2.6
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: arguments panel.first, panel.last for plot-methods can now be
        lists

Version: 2.6
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: introduced returnlevelplot, a generalization of the respective
        diagnostic plot facility of package ismev

Version: 2.6
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: qqplot and returnlevelplot gain pattern substitution like plot in
        titles and x/y axis lables

Version: 2.6
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: pattern substitution can now be switched on and off in all plot
        functions according to argument withSubst

Version: 2.6
Category: GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS
Text:

Version: 2.6
Category: under the hood
Text: zero dropping (see argument 'dropZeroDensity' above) --Optimizers
        like optim require finite values, so get problems when negative
        loglikelihood is evaluated, so optionally, and by default,
        values with density/likelihood 0 are dropped from optimization

Version: 2.6
Category: under the hood
Text: removed ::: internal dependencies (within distr-Fam of pkgs) by
        copying respective routines

Version: 2.6
Category: under the hood
Text: qqplot: * (already there for a while) gains ability to
        interchange x- and y- axis by argument 'datax' for
        compatibility with other qqplots * gains new methods for object
        of class "Estimate" (which could also be seen as "fitted"
        objects...)  * additional argument added.points.CI to allow for
        additional evaluation points for the confidence intervals in
        the range of the seen data * now by default has datax = TRUE *
        fixed issue with labeling * issues with datax fixed * gains
        argument jit.tol to allow jittering to take place also for
        continuous observations, if observations are "too" close to
        each other

Version: 2.6
Category: under the hood
Text: returnlevelplot * similar as qqplot as to additional methods *
        returnlevelplot now gains an argument threshold for POT * set
        datax argument in case it is missing in returnlevelplot ...  *
        issues with datax fixed * gains argument jit.tol to allow
        jittering to take place also for continuous observations, if
        observations are "too" close to each other

Version: 2.6
Category: under the hood
Text: new internal method .checkEstClassForParamFamily-method to be
        called immediately before returning an Estimate object (in
        functions Estimator(), MCEstimator(), MDEstimator(),
        MLEstimator()); this allows to return an object of S4 class
        specific to the resp. parametric family (by means of S4 method
        dispatch); this is used in pkg 'RobExtremes' to produce, e.g.,
        objects of class "GEVMCEstimate", i.e. which inherit from both
        "MCEstimate" and "GEVEstimate", so that a diag-method for
        "GEVEstimate" becomes available for this class.

Version: 2.6
Category: under the hood
Text: enhanced imports in DESCRIPTION by explicating second order
        imports

Version: 2.6
Category: under the hood
Text: helper function .isReplicated gains an optional argument tol
        BUGFIXES:

Version: 2.6
Category: under the hood
Text: fixed issue with slot withPosRestr in ParamFamParameter.R

Version: 2.6
Category: under the hood
Text: fixed issue with check.validity (reported by B.Spangl)

Version: 2.6
Category: under the hood
Text: fixed some minor issue in existsPIC (in case we get 0 matrix, and
        less strict tolerance)

Version: 2.6
Category: under the hood
Text: fixed issue with returnlevelplot discovered by B. Spangl --
        points had not been ordered

Version: 2.6
Category: under the hood
Text: fixed CIs for qqplot and returnlevelplot

Version: 2.5
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text:

Version: 2.5
Category: GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS
Text: cleaned DESCRIPTION and NAMESPACE file as to Imports/Depends

Version: 2.5
Category: under the hood
Text: For speeding up things, we now have an option withL2derivDistr =
        TRUE which if FALSE skips computing the image distribution in
        two dimensional models, i.e., have switched slot L2derivDistr
        from "DistrList" to "OptionalDistrList".

Version: 2.5
Category: under the hood
Text: delayed calculation of variances and allow to skip or delay
        calculation of L2derivDistr; to this end introduced new class
        unions "OptionalNumericOrMatrixOrCall",
        "OptionalDistrListOrCall"; respectively at certain stages,
        evaluation of the call must then be forced

Version: 2.5
Category: under the hood
Text: consequence: L2LocationScaleFamilies now use median mad as
        starting estimator in robest roptest (and no longer call
        CvM-MDE)

Version: 2.5
Category: under the hood
Text: small change to avoid frequent calls to getImageDistr

Version: 2.5
Category: under the hood
Text: (L2)ParamFamily gains slots .withEvalAsVar to allow delayed
        evaluation of variances .withEvalL2derivDistr to allow delayed
        evaluation of L2derivDistr .withMDE to control extra calls to
        MDEstimator that might not be necessary in robest (e.g. with
        GParetoFamily())

Version: 2.5
Category: under the hood
Text: correspondingly accessor L2derivDistr now checks whether it is a
        call and if so evaluates

Version: 2.5
Category: under the hood
Text: forgot to commit some changes in show() for asvar in the last
        round

Version: 2.5
Category: under the hood
Text: in checkL2deriv, in addition, relative tolerances are also issued
        for Fisher Information

Version: 2.5
Category: under the hood
Text: fixed an issue with modifyModel in case of location scale models:
        in these cases we do neither want to produce a call nor an
        evaluated call to imageDistr...

Version: 2.5
Category: under the hood
Text: added .Rbuildignore

Version: 2.5
Category: under the hood
Text: exported some routines which had been internal so far to avoid
        calls by ::: BUGFIXES:

Version: 2.5
Category: under the hood
Text: moved generics to "distribution" and "samplesize" to pkg distr to
        avoid conflict with pkg distrSim

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: moved GumbelLocationFamily to new package "RobExtremes"

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: new function addAlphTrsp2col to add alpha transparency to a given
        color; qqplot gains argument alpha.trsp to control for alpha
        transparency

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: added modifyModel method for ParamFamily, some minor corrections
        due to more strict checking in R devel

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: created folder vignettes and moved content of inst/doc/ to it

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: removed lazyload tag in DESCRIPTION

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: updated affiliation info in newDistributions.Rnw

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: deleted inst/doc folder

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: .Rbuildignore file as a reaction to B. Ripley's mail on r-devel,
        "CRAN package sizes", Feb-14-2011

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: added computation of relative error in checkL2deriv - maybe there
        is a better idea avoiding division by zero,

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: added DESCRIPTION tag "ByteCompile" to all our packages

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: updating maintainer email address and URL.

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: added argument no.readonly = TRUE to assignments of form opar <-
        par()

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: new intermediate classes/ class unions for scale families and
        scale shape families;

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: consequent use of argument validity.check in MCE estimators.

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: removed relics of ancient L2Fam-slot withPos (was introduced in a
        try)

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: introduced slot scaleshapename for L2ScaleShapeUnion and methods
        scalename und scaleshapename (accessor/replacers)

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: after change of @<- semantics by J. Chambers moved from class(M)
        <- class(model) to slotwise copying

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: S4Method "mceCalc", signature(x = "numeric", PFam =
        "ParamFamily") gains additional calls to makeOKPar() to warrant
        admissible parameter values

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: Estimator can now deal with asymptotic variances if given; to
        this end gains optional argument ParamFamily

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: put some examples in \dontrun to reduce check time on CRAN

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: deleted file GumbelLocationFamily.Rd (no longer needed)

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: Default name of Estimator is now "Estimator"

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: under the hood
Text: deleted no longer needed chm folders

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: bugfixes in NbinomMeanSizeFamily and NbinomwithSizeFamily
        (detected by Matthias!)

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: digamma was used instead of trigamma

Version: 2.4
Date: 2013-02-07
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: validparameter: fixed a bug with slot withPosRestr (which is not
        a member of L2ParamFamily but of the respective parameter!)

Version: 2.3
Date: 2011-01-20
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: introduced NbinomFamily in response to Markus Kalisch's mail to
        RsR

Version: 2.3
Date: 2011-01-20
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: restated L2-deriv and L2-deriv distribution s.t. it is
        computationally easier to treat

Version: 2.3
Date: 2011-01-20
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: also now allow 2-parametric model Nbinom (see
        SimpleL2ParamFamilies.R...) ++ Vignette:

Version: 2.3
Date: 2011-01-20
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: uploaded vignette for distrMod (still to be done: insert exact
        volume,number,pages)

Version: 2.3
Date: 2011-01-20
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: Matthias' Kommentare (Kreis-Symbol, Rem) ge<e4>ndert

Version: 2.3
Date: 2011-01-20
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: merged in Matthias' changes

Version: 2.3
Date: 2011-01-20
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: integrated JSS version of vignette

Version: 2.3
Date: 2011-01-20
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: vignette distrMod fertiggemacht

Version: 2.3
Date: 2011-01-20
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: vignette announced in startup msg

Version: 2.3
Date: 2011-01-20
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: meta-information included to vignette

Version: 2.3
Date: 2011-01-20
Category: under the hood
Text: DESCRIPTION files and package-help files gain a tag SVNRevision
        to be filled by get[All]RevNr.R from utils in distr

Version: 2.3
Date: 2011-01-20
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: re-uploaded svn-multi.sty and svnkw.sty after error report by Jan
        de Leeuw.

Version: 2.3
Date: 2011-01-20
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: made doc for NbinomFamily error-free

Version: 2.3
Date: 2011-01-20
Category: Bug
Text: qqplot
        https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?atid=400&group_id=87&func=browse
        should be fixed

Version: 2.3
Date: 2011-01-20
Category: Bug
Text: for restoring old par() values, not all attributes may be set;
        hence deleted them from stored value in plot functions by
        something like opar$cin <- opar$cra <- opar$csi <- opar$cxy <-
        opar$din <- NULL

Version: 2.3
Date: 2011-01-20
Category: Bug
Text: unnecessary Rplots.pdf deleted from inst folders of distr and
        distrMod (are created anyway during vignette build)

Version: 2.2.2
Date: 2010-07-23
Category: Vignette to distrMod aka
Text:

Version: 2.2.2
Date: 2010-07-23
Category: M. Kohl and P. Ruckdeschel (2010): R Package distrMod: S4
        Classes and Methods for Probability Models
Text:

Version: 2.2.2
Date: 2010-07-23
Category: Journal of Statistical Software, 35(10), 1-27.
        \url{http://www.jstatsoft.org/v35/i10
Text:

Version: 2.2.2
Date: 2010-07-23
Category: included
Text:

Version: 2.2.1
Text: fixed error in \section{} (had \code{} markup...)
        http://n4.nabble.com/Recent-TeX-changes-and-R-package-manuals-tp956056p956056.html

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: Estimators: * AllShow: deleted tab in nuisance and fixed part
        when parts are named. * in mceCalc penalty now allows for
        functions * Estimator(), MCEstimator(), MLEstimator(),
        MDEstimator() gain argument na.rm; if true estimators are
        evaluated at complete.cases(x) * MCEstimate-class gains slot
        startPar; corresponding accessor functions;

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: unified treatment of NAs: * class Estimate gains slot
        completecases, * class Confint gains slot
        completecases.estimate, * there is accessor function
        completecases[.estimate] * slot samplesize only counts complete
        cases * accessor functions samplesize[.estimate] gains argument
        onlycompletecases; if TRUE returns slot samplesize[.estimate]
        as is, otherwise adds sum(completecases[.estimate](object)) to
        it * internally all Estimator functions work with data
        na.omit(x) instead of x

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: Models: * checkL2deriv gains ... argument to pass on accuracy
        arguments to E()

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: plotting: * new diagnostic function qqplot to check the quality
        of a model fit

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: special methods for first argument "ANY" (the data) and for
        second argument of class "UnivariateDistribution",
        "ProbFamily",

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: comes with corresponding (pointwise/simultaneous) confidence
        intervals

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: user-visible CHANGES
Text: flexible labelling of data points

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS
Text: added tests/Examples folder with file distrMod-Ex.Rout.save to
        have some automatic testing

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS
Text: added field "Encoding: latin1" to all DESCRIPTION files in order
        to avoid problems with e.g. Windows locale when svn replaces
        $LastChangedDate

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS
Text: added TOBEDONE (sic!) files for each package (by accident also in
        trunc; these are empty so far)

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: INTERNALLY
Text: moved Distribution symmetry classes and corresponding
        methods/functions from distrMod to distr * in distrMod remove
        slots from class ProbFamily and L2ParamFamily -distrSymm
        (information is already in slot distr) -L2derivSymm
        (information will be in Random Variable L2deriv)
        -L2derivDistrSymm (information will be in DistrList
        L2derivDistr)

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: INTERNALLY
Text: changed behaviour of mceCalc() and consequently of MCEstimator(),
        MDEstimator(), MLEstimator(): Instead of mapping unallowed
        parameter values into allowed ones by makeOKPar(), thereby
        pretending to optim/optimize that the unallowed parameters give
        reasonable criterion values, now always a penalty is returned
        whenever the parameter is not valid. For profiling though, we
        still keep the old behavior, i.e. map to allowed parameters by
        makeOKPar() in the returned criterion function.

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: INTERNALLY
Text: in mceCalc naming is "more" unique (to avoid unintended name
        clashes)

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: INTERNALLY
Text: class MCEstimate gains slot optimwarn to gather warnings issued
        in optimization; may be accessed with method optimwarn()

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: INTERNALLY
Text: potentially, mleCalc now transports the value of the current
        parameter value theta as argument thetaPar to the optimization
        criterion; controlled for by argument withthetaPar (defaulting
        to FALSE) Hence, if desired, particular criterion functions
        could make use of this information, by, say computing the
        criterion differently for different parameter values We used it
        to check whether the numerically found optimum obeys first
        order conditions (i.e. sum (L2deriv(x_i))=0)

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: INTERNALLY
Text: new utility: .deleteDim to delete /only/ dim attribute

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: INTERNALLY
Text: to deal with nuisance parameters: * utility .validTrafo(), in
        presence of nuisance, covering coordinates p+1..k, now accepts
        for matrices either dim p x p or p x k and in case
        ncol(trafo==k) * correspondingly modified validity function
        slot in ParamFamParameter() * method trafo is changed for
        nuisance parameters: - for signature ParamFamily,
        ParamFamParameter now takes special care about presence of a
        nuisance parameter: if so it returns as mat item a matrix with
        corresponding zero-columns for the nuisance coordinates so that
        it has dim p x k where k=length(main)+length(nuisance) -
        .validTrafo calls in ParamFamParameter.R (in generating
        function ParamFamParameter, in trafo-methods signature
        ParamFamParameter, missing in main<- method for signature
        ParamFamParameter in trafo<- method for signature
        ParamFamParameter) are now prepended with necessary dimension -
        calculations in order to check whether its dim is pxp or pxk
        (see point ".validTrafo")

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: INTERNALLY
Text: show methods for class Estimate are a bit more careful: * in
        principle they accept estimate slots with a dim attribute *
        special care is taken to whether untransformed.asvar is not
        NULL / NA-free

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: INTERNALLY
Text: removed unnecessary "fixed" component of parameter in
        ExpScaleFamily

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: inserted Symmetry information in demo modelExp3.R

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: simplified treatment of random variable L2deriv in
        L2ParamFamily.R

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: small modifications to make modifyModel work with matrices in
        calls

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: small correction needed for case trafo in R^(1 x k)

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: plot should now work for models with trafo - shows untransformed
        family

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: mceCalc was building a named call with arguments x and
        Distribution and hence MDEstimator did no longer work...

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: for MDEstimator, similarly, this is controlled by paramDepDist

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: there were problems in confint() when diag() was called with
        numeric of length one.

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: modified wrong use of "criterium" to "criterion"

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: a tiny buglet in prototype for trafo slot

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: yet another issue with "pretty printing", -> give default names
        "" if empty

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: the "dim"-issue: * estimate, untransformed.estimate, main, and
        nuisance from time to time did not return numerics (instead:
        items with dim attribute...) * accessors to
        [untransoformed.]asvar now coerce to matrix, but only so if the
        item is not NULL * in .process.meCalcRes delete dim attribute
        for slots [untransformed.]estimate unless already present in
        main (and nuisance)

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: yet another issue with accessor function to
        [untransformed.]estimate --- it ate the names....

Version: 2.2
Date: 2009-11-03
Category: BUGFIXES
Text: setAs(<MCEstimate>,<mle>) was wrong for nuisance parameters

Version: 2.1
Date: 2009-04-15
Text: Rd-style: + several buglets detected with the fuzzier checking
        mechanism cf [Rd] More intensive checking of R help files, Prof
        Brian Ripley, 09.01.2009 10:25) [Rd] Warning: missing text for
        item ... in \describe? , Prof Brian Ripley,

Version: 2.1
Date: 2009-04-15
Text: MODELS + added mad.const to guarantee for mad-consistency in
        location scale model + loc/scale model: standardization by n
        not by (n-1) as in case of sd .  + minor modification,
        L2derivDistr in case of location and scale families + some
        modifications such that LnormScaleFamily works properly ...  +
        bug in LnormScaleFamily corrected ...  + modifyModel gains
        argument .withL2derivDistr --- if false needs not be calculated
        (as e.g. this is done in a particular method calling the
        general method first...)

Version: 2.1
Date: 2009-04-15
Text: TRAFO + fixed some inconsistencies with slot trafo: now when
        trafo is a function, we try to keep it as a function under
        moves of the parametric model...  + we introduce - a function
        trafo.fct() (see ?trafo.fct) to access the "function" aspect of
        trafo - a function trafoEst() which transforms an existing
        estimator of class "estimate" consistently (i.e. with
        corresponding untransfromed.estimate and untransformed.asvar
        information and transformed asvar) by a "trafo" function; see
        ?trafoEst

Version: 2.1
Date: 2009-04-15
Text: ESTIMATION + minor correction sqrt((n-1)/n)*sd(x) + enhanced
        Covariance calculation for CvMDist-MDE + modified output in
        show - Confint-class

Version: 2.1
Date: 2009-04-15
Text: PLOTTING + fixed issue with cex.inner + fixed bug in plot-methods
        for argument "inner" under use of to.draw.arg argument +
        realized suggestions by A. Unwin, Augsburg; plot for
        L2paramFamilies may be restricted to selected subplots; +
        L2ParamFamily plot in distrMod is now are as flexible as
        plot-methods in pkg distr + small changes in AllPlot.R in
        distrMod + plot-L2ParamFamily now also digests ... , in
        particular grid() + some fix in order to cover the case of
        argument panel.first=grid() in the ... argument (needs a
        delayed evaluation...)

Version: 2.1
Date: 2009-04-15
Text: BUGFIXES + some minor issues in L2GroupFamilies (if locscalename
        is missing) + fixed issue with MCE, MLE and MDE; these are also
        defined for ParamFamily class objects; so they need not have an
        Information slot + fixed a bug in L2GroupFamilies: it must be
        .getLogDeriv(centraldistribution) instead of
        .getLogDeriv(distribution) + a minor buglet object@trafo
        instead of trafo(object)

Version: 2.0.3
Date: 2008-11-29
Text: under the hood: + enhanced plotting (correct dispatch; opening of
        new device is controlled by option("newDevice") ) + after JMC's
        changes: gone through setIs relations to ensure "correct"
        inheritance

Version: 2.0.3
Date: 2008-11-29
Text: moved license to LGPL-3

Version: 2.0.3
Date: 2008-11-29
Text: new plot()-methods capabilities comparable to those of
        plot()-methods in package distr(): + plot-L2ParamFamily now
        also digests ... , in particular panel.first=grid()

Version: 2.0.3
Date: 2008-11-29
Text: corrected some buglets: + corrected small bug in
        SimpleL2ParamFamilies.R ...  + corrected small bug in
        GumbelLocationFamily ...  + small modifications to
        modifyModel.R ... modification of model a crucial step ... find
        a better way to do this???

Version: 2.0.3
Date: 2008-11-29
Text: new show() for 'confint'

Version: 2.0.3
Date: 2008-11-29
Text: new 'confint' methods for robust confidence intervals

Version: 2.0
Date: 2008-09-12
Text: start of the package

Version: 2.0
Date: 2008-09-12
Text: includes Parametric Models (with corresponding S4 classes)

Version: 2.0
Date: 2008-09-12
Text: parameter (realized as corresponding S4 class) is split up into
        +main part +nuisance part +fixed part may be transformed by
        user defined trafo function

Version: 2.0
Date: 2008-09-12
Text: includes Minimum Criterium Estimators (with corresponding S4
        classes) ---with particular cases +Maximum Likelihood +Minimum
        Distance Estimators for Kolmogorov, Hellinger, Totalvariation,
        and Cramer von Mises distance

Version: 2.0
Date: 2008-09-12
Text: Minimum Criterum Estimators can (but do not need to) use method
        dispatch; this way particular methods beyond numerical
        optimization can be used without changing distrMod code

Version: 2.0
Date: 2008-09-12
Text: has Symmetry classes (useful for avoiding unnecessary
        integrations)

Version: 2.0
Date: 2008-09-12
Text: has biastype classes

Version: 2.0
Date: 2008-09-12
Text: has norm classes (to be used for differently standardized risks
        and ICs)

Version: 2.0
Date: 2008-09-12
Text: includes confint() methods for our Estimator classes

Version: 2.0
Date: 2008-09-12
Text: features risk classes (mainly used in RobASt packages, though)

Version: 2.0
Date: 2008-09-12
Text: includes demos/scripts