NEWS.md

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mcboost 0.4.4

• Fix link anchors

mcboost 0.4.3

• Compatibility with upcoming 'paradox' release.
• Change the vignette to not use the holdout task.

mcboost 0.4.2

• Removed new functionality for survival tasks added in 0.4.0. A dependency, mlr3proba was removed from CRAN for now. The functionality will be added back when mlr3proba is re-introduced to CRAN. Users who wish to use mcboost for survival are adviced to use version 0.4.1 usetogether with the GitHub version of mlr3proba.
• Improved stability of unit tests and example checks on CRAN.

mcboost 0.4.1

• Fixed unit error in unit tests that led to non-passing unit tests with new mlr3proba version.

mcboost 0.4.0

• [Experimental] mcboost now has experimental support for survival tasks. See MCBoostSurv and the corresponding vignette "MCBoostSurv - Basics" for more information.
• We have published an article about mcboost in the Journal of Open Source Software: "https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.03453". See citation("mcboost") for the citation info.

mcboost 0.3.3

• Auditors can now also update weights if correlations are negative by switching the sign of the update direction as intended in the paper.
• Minor adaptions to improve stability of unit tests

mcboost 0.3.2

• Minor adpations to improve stability of unit tests

mcboost 0.3.1

• Fixed a bug for additive weight updates, were updates went in the wrong direction.
• Added new parameter eval_fulldata that allows to compute auditor effect across the full sample (as opposed to the bucket).

mcboost 0.3.0

• First CRAN-ready version of the package.
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

mcboost documentation built on Aug. 8, 2025, 6:22 p.m.