Changes in version 2.2.3 (2025-08-23)                  

  - Adapted linking to foreign packages
  - Added citation for area level models
  - Bugfix: Argument (k) path through fixed for robust FH models

                 Changes in version 2.2.2 (2024-06-11)                  

  - Addition of logit transformation in FH model
  - Removal of MuMIn dependency

                 Changes in version 2.2.1 (2023-11-05)                  

  - Substitution of maptools and rgeos by sf due to deprecation of the
    former
  - Substitution of ggplot2::fortify by ggplot2::geom_sf due to
    depreciation of the former

                 Changes in version 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 argument within the ebp
    function

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 2.1.1 (2022-01-04)                  

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

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 2.0.3 (2021-05-16)                  

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

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 1.1.7 (2020-03-18)                  

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

                 Changes in version 1.1.6 (2019-10-26)                  

  - New and updated references.

                 Changes in version 1.1.5 (2019-04-08)                  

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

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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.

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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

                 Changes in version 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