NEWS.md

In countreg: Count Data Regression

countreg 0.2-1

• Bug fix in dhpois() and dhnbinom() when x is a vector and pi is a scalar (reported by Andrea Gilardi).

• Try to auto-detect columns in regressor matrices that are aliased, i.e., whose coefficients cannot be estimated. This is based on pivot and rank from qr() and can detect, e.g., constant or linearly dependent columns.

• Catch errors when inverting the Hessian from optim, returning an NA matrix of correct dimension instead.

• Conditionally register autoplot.rootogram() method.

countreg 0.2-0

• New d/p/q/r/s functions for all combinations of Poisson vs. negative binomial (NB) and zero-truncated vs. zero-inflated vs. hurdle. The parameter names are all greek letters: lambda for Poisson mean, mu for NB mean, theta for NB dispersion, pi for zero-modification probability (either inflation or hurdle crossing). The theta parameter may also be called size for consistency with base R's nbinom family.

• New generic function pit() for extracting the probability integral transform F(y) where F is the predicted cumulative density function and y the observed response.

• Quantile residuals are now computed based on the pit() extractor.

• New graphics function pithist() for PIT histograms based on pit().

• New data set OralHealthNL accompanying Hofstetter et al. (2016): "Modeling Caries Experience: Advantages of the Use of the Hurdle Model", Caries Research, 50(6), 517-526. doi:10.1159/000448197

countreg 0.1-5

• New d/p/q/r/s functions for the zero-truncated Poisson distribution where the parameter can either be specified in terms of the zero-truncated mean or the untruncated mean lambda.

• New ztpoisson() family object for the estimation of zero-truncated Poisson regression model via glm().

countreg 0.1-4

• New qresiduals() generic for computing (randomized) quantile residuals along with methods for various objects. (This is somewhat more flexible than statmod::qresiduals() which is not generic.)

• A Q-Q plot based on quantile residuals is available in the new function qqrplot().

countreg 0.1-3

• The hurdle() function now allows for the restriction of the theta parameter for the negative binomial distribution across the censored zero and truncated count components. The restriction is applied if dist = "negbin", zero.dist = "negbin", and separate = FALSE.

• Bug fix in the computation of the standard error of log(theta) in zeroinfl() when with weighted data. The weights were used for the estimation of log(theta) but the standard error was not scaled accordingly.

countreg 0.1-2

• The style and scale are now added as attributes to rootogram objects so that they can be re-used in the c() and + methods.

countreg 0.1-1

• New data sets SerumPotassium, TakeoverBids, VolcanoHeights.

• New function disptest() providing several (score) tests for over/underdispersion.

• New rootogram() function with a wide range methods for creating rootograms based on various fitted model objects (fitdistr, glm, hurdle, zeroinfl, zerotrunc, ...)

• FLXMRnegbin() driver for estimating mixtures of negative binomial models using flexmix.

• MBnegbin(), MBztnegbin(), MBztpoisson() and MBbinomial() families for estimating boosted components of hurdle models using mboost.

countreg 0.1-0

• Ported zeroinfl() and hurdle() along with corresponding vignette from pscl to countreg.

• Added zerotrunc() for estimating zero-truncated count regressions.

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