NEWS.md

In zadrafi/concurve: Computes & Plots Compatibility (Confidence), Surprisal, & Likelihood Distributions

concurve 2.7.7

Major changes

• log option added to curve_gen() to exponentiate the coefficients.
• Thanks to Isabella Ghement for finding the issue and notifying us about it.
• customization option for title fully added to ggcurve()

concurve 2.7.5

Major changes

• Substantial revisions to the documents and website
• Now, far fewer dependencies to avoid potential conflicts in the future
• Included lots of resources for individuals to better learn the concepts
• Far better improvement in documentation and in continous integration
• Added several messages that accompany functions from the program to aid researchers
• Larger and improved tutorial on how to construct these functions using Stata

concurve 2.7.0

Major changes

• curve_gen() now includes options to adjust CIs and P-values for multiple comparisons.
• curve_gen() can now accept inputs from the rms package's ols() function.
• This can be done using the same lm option that is typically used.
• disabled likelihood function computations for curve_rev() for continuous variables due to instability.

Minor changes

• improvements to documentation all around.
• new article on estimating variance components using lme4.
• new article on using curve_table() to produce outputs from the functions.
• updates to article on troubleshooting and parallel computing.

concurve 2.6.0

Major changes

• An error in curve_rev() was fixed where for the default measure, the computations were calculated as if measure was set to ratio.
• Thank you to Aaron Caldwell for his generous help in fixing this bug.
• curve_rev() can now take summary statistics such as the point estimate and it's standard error to back calculate the function.
• Also thanks to Aaron Caldwell for this added feature.
• curve_boot() now takes an option allowing users to specify the number of cores to be used.
• Graphing functions such as ggcurve() and plot_compare() now have the options to customize the second y-axis and also change the color of the outline of the functions.
• Thus, the argument yaxis has been replaced by yaxis1 and yaxis2.
• For plot_compare() color has been replaced by color1 and color2

concurve 2.5.0

Major changes

• curve_meta() can now handle complex data structures from metafor with clustered data.
• curve_gen() can now handle ANOVAs and robust linear regressions from the MASS package.
• concurve is now intergrated with the cowplot package for easier graphing.
• removed tibble::tibble() integration due to breakage in code.
• expand_scale() has been replaced with expansion() within the inner workings of ggcurve() and plot_compare() due to the former function (expand_scale()) being deprecated.

concurve 2.4.1

Major changes

• New function curve_lmer() for mixed-effects models
• Fixed a bug where curve_meta() could not utilize rma.mh() or rma.peto() from metafor.

concurve 2.4.0

Major changes

• curve_boot() can utilize parametric Bca bootstrap methods to compute functions.
• Corrected error where order of labels in columns for curve_boot() tables was incorrect.
• Corrected error where order of labels in columns for curve_meta() tables was incorrect.
• Set minimum version of R to 3.5.0.
• included install.packages("concurve", dep = TRUE) as solution to installation problems for some individuals.
• Removed MASS, compiler, and Rlang from DESCRIPTION IMPORTS, since these weren't used.
• Wrote new unit tests examing the class of each of the objects created from the functions.

Minor changes

• ggcurve() theme has been changed from theme_bw() to theme_minimal().
• Several new examples in the "Examples in R" article.

concurve 2.3.0

Major changes

• ggconcurve() is now ggcurve().
• ggcurve() plots confidence (consonance) distributions, densities, likelihood, and deviance functions.
• plot_curve() is now deprecated. Please use ggcurve() instead.
• curve_compare() compares two functions and calculates the area between the curve.
• plot_compare()allows two separate functions to be plotted and compared simultaneously.
• curve_table() produces publication-ready tables of relevant statistics.
• curve_boot() uses bootstrapping to approximate the consonance functions via the boot and bcaboot packages.
• curve_lik() produces likelihood functions by transforming the objects from the ProfileLikelihood package.

Minor changes

• All functions now provide progress on how long it will take to complete the task.
• Interval widths are now provided as measures of precision.

concurve 2.1.0

Major changes

• ggconcurve() now plots both the P-values and CI level using both y-axes when the type = "consonance". Previously, this was only possible via plot_concurve() (which uses base R graphics) because ggplot2 had a bug in its last few versions, which inhibited proper transformations in the y-axis.

concurve 2.0.1

Major changes

• plot_concurve() now has "measure" as an item which allows for ratio measures to be logarithmically scaled on the x axis. There are two options, "default", which is set as the default option and is for mean differences, and "ratio", which will result in the axis being logarithmically scaled.
• plot_concurve() also now has a "fill" option which will allow users to choose the color of the plot.

concurve 2.0

Major changes

• The plotpint() function which plotted consonance functions has been repackaged into ggconcurve().
• The plotsint() function which plotted surprisal functions has been repackaged into ggconcurve().
• Functions can now also be plotted with base R via the plot_concurve() function.
• Consonance functions can be plotted as a pyramid (right side up) or inverted (upside down) via the "position" item in ggconcurve().
• Null values (for means & ratios) can be plotted via the ggconcurve() function to show how much of the interval surrounds it.
• Log transformations included in all the plotting functions for ratio measures.
• Parallel programming has now been implemented into the computations via the mclapply() function from the parallel package.

concurve 1.08

Major changes

• Can produce consonance and surprisal functions for correlations via the corrintervals() function.
• Now able to construct consonance and surprisal functions from the point estiate, and confidence limits via the rev_eng() function.
• Graphs produced via the plotpint() or plotsint() function now able to take custom titles, subtitles, x-axis titles, and captions.

concurve 1.07

Major changes

• Can now produce consonance and surprisal functions for survival data produced with the survival package.

concurve 1.06

Major changes

• Now contains documentation for producing interval functons in Stata.

Minor changes

• Default plots now contain grids, title, subtitle, and a caption.
• Updated figures in README and the 'Examples in R' vignette/article.

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