News for Package ‘smof’

Changes in smof version 1.2.1 (2024-10-30)

• Objects of class gnm are now handled.

• Methods coef and anova are introduced for class smof.

• The smof argument trace is replaced by the more flexible argument verbose.

• Fixed a bug in the parsing of the object formula which caused problems when some factor has a name which is portion of another factor name.

• Fixed a bug in smof_refit affecting the retrival of the parameters estimated in the initial call to smof.

Changes in smof version 1.2.0 (2024-09-17)

• A variant method for assigning numeric scores is introduced, based on monotonic splines.

• An implication of the new variant method is that one argument of the function smof had to redesigned.

• The new function smof_refit is introduced.

• Additional arguments of smof have been introduced.

• Fixed a bug in predict.smof which affected the case with multiple factors.

Changes in smof version 1.1.0 (2024-03-04)

• The object returned by smof now includes additional components and is assigned to class smof.

• Various methods are introduced for class smof: print, summary, plot, predict.

• Fixed a bug which prevented the use of option fast.fit=TRUE when family=binomial(..) and the response was of binary type.

Initial smof version 1.0.0 (2023-11-21)

• First public version of the package and upload to CRAN, with only one exported function, namely smof.

• Scoring of factors are produced from distributions among the families "gh", "SU", "sinh-arcsinh" or their equivalente names.

• Admissible classes of fitted models are "lm", "mlm", "glm", "survreg", "coxph.penal", "coxph".