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EpiNow2 1.6.1

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EpiNow2 1.6.0

A release that introduces model improvements to the Gaussian Process models, alongside a number of other improvements and bug fixes.

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EpiNow2 1.5.2

A patch release to further fix an issue with the date in the package citation. This has now been addressed by removing inst/CITATION.

EpiNow2 1.5.1

A patch release to fix an issue with the date in the package citation.

EpiNow2 1.5.0

This release comes with a change of maintainer, from @seabbs to @sbfnk. This is to reflect who will handle the upcoming CRAN submission, but is not expected to lead to a change in workflows.

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EpiNow2 1.4.0

This release contains some bug fixes, minor new features, and the initial stages of some broader improvement to future handling of delay distributions.

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EpiNow2 1.3.5

This is a minor release to resolve issues with the recent CRAN requirement to make use of a C++ 17 compiler which has been causing issues with the rstantools package.

EpiNow2 1.3.4

This release focusses on bug fixes and package infrastructure updates along with a few quality of life improvements such as enabling the use of fixed delays and generation times.

Thanks to @seabbs, and @sbfnk and for the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA) for hosting @seabbs whilst some of the development work on this release was being done.

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EpiNow2 1.3.3

This release adds a range of new minor features, squashes bugs, enhances documentation, expands unit testing, implements some minor run-time optimisations, and removes some obsolete features.

Thanks to @Bisaloo, @hsbadr, @LloydChapman, @medewitt, and @sbfnk for contributing to this release.

Thanks to @sbfnk, @pearsonca, and @nicholasdavies for regression testing this release against 1.3.2.

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EpiNow2 1.3.2

In this release model run times have been reduced using a combination of code optimisation and testing to reduce the likelihood of long running edge cases. Model flexibility has also been increased, particularly for the back calculation approach which now supports an increased range of prior choices. A significant development in this release is the edition of the experimental estimate_secondary model (and supporting forecast and plot functions). This allows a downstream target to be forecast from an observation. Example use cases include forecasting deaths from test positive cases and hospital bed usage from hospital admissions. This approach is intended to provide an alternative to models in which multiple targets are estimated jointly.

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EpiNow2 1.3.1

This release focusses on model stability, with a functional rewrite of the model implementation, finalising the interface across the package, and introducing additional tooling. The additional tooling includes: support for adjusting for and estimating data truncation, multiple approaches for estimating Rt (including the default generative Rt approach, de-convolution coupled with Rt calculation, and EpiEstim like estimation on observed cases but with a robust observation model), optional scaling of observed data, and optional adjustment of future forecasts based on population susceptibility. The examples have also been expanded with links out to Covid-19 specific work flows that may be of interest to users. The implementation and model options are now considered to be maturing with the next release planned to contain documentation on the underlying approach, case studies, validation, evaluation the various supported options, and tools for dealing with secondary reports that are dependent on a primary report (i.e hospital admissions and hospital bed usage). If interested in contributing to any of these features please contact the package authors or submit a PR. User contributions are warmly welcomed.

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EpiNow2 1.2.1

This release introduces multiple breaking interface changes. Please see the README for examples of the new interface. It adds a range of quality of life improvements including updating the stan interface to support fitting each chain independently and offering variational inference as an alternative, experimental, fitting option. Notably it also adds support for nesting logging and a parallel enabled progress bar via the progressr package. Minor bugs have been fixed in the core model implementation focussing on stability and several already implemented features have been extended. Major model developments are planned for the next release of EpiNow2.

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EpiNow2 1.1.0

EpiNow2 1.0.0

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