SUMMER - changes

Version 1.0.0 (2020-07-01)

• Major updates to functions.
  • fitGeneric is now smoothSurvey
  • fitINLA is now smoothDirect
  • fitINLA2 is now smoothCluster
  • More extensions in both smoothed direct and cluster level models.
  • Major changes to how temporal models are specified with time.model and st.time.model.
  • More interpretable parameterization of slope and random slopes.
  • More visualization options.
  • Note: Previous function name and argument syntax remain to work as before, but may not receive high priority in maintenance in the future.
    
• Many minor improvements in functions.
  • Better model summary message.
  • Removed unnecessary function arguments, e.g., geo in various functions.
  • Removed the requirement to repeated specifying Amat, year_label and year_range. Now they are only required in the model fitting stage.
• New vignettes.

Version 0.3.1 (2019-10-23)

• Fixed minor typo that lower and upper bounds switched after applying aggregateSurvey().
• Add option to remove person-month records if last time period contain only k years of data in getBirth().
• Improved mapPlot().

Version 0.3.0 (2019-10-01)

• Version 0.3.0 contains some major updates from the previous versions.
• The following functions have been renamed. Most of the function arguments remain the same:
  • countrySummary is now getDirect
  • cuontrySummary_mult is now getDirectList
  • fitspace is now fitGeneric
  • projINLA is now getSmooth
    
• Major new functions:
  • fitINLA2: implements new smoothing methods based on binomial models at cluster level.
  • getDiag: produce diagnostic plots for the fitted model.
  • hatchPlot: plot variables on a map with hatching indicating the width of the credible interval.
• The following help functions are added:
  • getAdjusted: produce adjusted estimates for a fitted model
  • getAmat: automatic extract spatial adjacency matrix from the polygon file.
  • getCounts: aggregate person-month data into counts and totals by groups.
  • mapPoints: map GPS points to polygon regions.
    
• Default prior changed to BYM2 + PC priors.
• Various name changes for function arguments to reduce ambiguity.
• Various output column name change to improve consistency across functions.
• Three set of new vignettes are provided to guide users through various modeling workflow.