NEWS

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emdi 2.2.0 (2023-06-14)

• Extension of the ebp function to allow for population weights
• Extension of the ebp function to allow the aggregation of the estimates to different levels
• a more flexible use of the custom_indicator agrument within the ebp function

emdi 2.1.3 (2022-11-30)

• Improved summary with clearer notation of R2
• Updated Area Level (FH) vignette
• Minor improvements in checking T/F in if clauses
• Increased dependency to R (>= 4.2.0) corresponding to the imported package MuMin

emdi 2.1.2 (2022-08-20)

• Improved messages
• Copyrights updated
• Bug fix in direct variance estimation (direct)
• Bug fix in level orderings (ebp)
• Changed last name in description

emdi 2.1.1 (2022-01-04)

• Fix to account for the changed behavior of as.vector() on data frames

emdi 2.1.0 (2021-07-07)

• Extension of the ebp function to allow informative sampling
• Additional data-driven transformations for the ebp
• New additional vignette
• Example in write.ods fixed

emdi 2.0.3 (2021-05-16)

• Robustifying tests to comply with alternative implementations
• Updated example for step

emdi 2.0.2 (2021-02-03)

• Many S3-methods in the style of stats and nlme are implemented for the classes direct, ebp and fh
• Structure of S3-classes has been cleaned up
• The bootstrap parameter in the fh-function has been changed from a single number to a single number or a numeric vector with two elements to allow for separately controlling the number of bootstrap iterations for the MSE estimation and the computation of the bootstrap based information criteria
• Renaming the robustness constant in the fh function
• Minor fixes in the documentation
• Reducing the sizes of the data sets used for test that tests to decrease testing time

emdi 2.0.1 (2020-07-10)

• Robustifying tests to comply with alternative BLAS/LAPACK implementations
• Robustifying tests to work with r-oldrel
• Updated R version dependency

emdi 2.0.0 (2020-07-07)

• Area-level models newly added via function fh
• All methods for emdi model are extended for emdi model fh
• Step function for area-level models newly added
• Three new data sets eusilcA_smpAgg, eusilcA_popAgg and eusilcA_prox have been integrated
• New additional vignette
• Change of argument order (model and direct) in function compare_plot
• Minor bug fixes in argument checkings and message handling
• Updated R version dependency

emdi 1.1.7 (2020-03-18)

• Minor typos corrected
• Unit-Tests adjusted to the forthcoming R-Version 4.0

emdi 1.1.6 (2019-10-26)

• New and updated references.

emdi 1.1.5 (2019-04-08)

• Tests updated to deal with new random number generation in R
• Some spelling improved

emdi 1.1.4 (2018-10-10)

• Fixed Bug in summary: R2 calculation with MuMIn is now fully working
• Added feature: formula used in fixed is now preserved, even if passed to ebp as a variable

emdi 1.1.3 (2018-07-24)

• The function compare_plot now benefits from a legend in all plots.
• Changes to be compatible with the forthcoming version of the MuMIn package.

emdi 1.1.2 (2018-04-04)

• The function compare_plot has been added to allow for an easy comparison between direct and model based estimates.
• Argument checks have been added, and improved
• Additional example in map_plot in order to explain the mapping table
• The datasets have been improved to allow for more realistic examples
• Small bug fixes
• Updated Vignette

emdi 1.1.1 (2017-07-06)

• The function ebp benefits from a new parameter called seed that allows reproducibility even when the function is run in parallel mode.
• Argument checks have been added, and improved
• Additional example in map_plot and direct
• Updated Vignette

emdi 1.1.0 (2017-05-18)

• A new function direct is made available, which provides direct estimation for small areas.
• The function ebp now allows for a user-defined threshold.
• The function ebp is now able to perform a semi-parametric wild bootstrap for MSE estimation.
• The function ebp has new default value for parallelization that automatically adopts for the operating system.
• The two data sets eusilcA_smp and eusilcA_pop have been updated.
• For the function map_plot additional customization is now applicable.
• All methods for emdi model except plot are extended for emdi direct.
• subset and as.data.frame have been added as methods for class emdi.estimators