primarycensoreddist 0.5.0

This release adds a new {touchstone} based benchmark suite to the package. It also adds a new "How it works" vignette which aims to give the reader more details into how the primary censored distributions work.

As part of the "How it works" we (@SamuelBrand1) found analytical solutions for the gamma, lognormal, and weibull distributions with uniform primary censoring. These are now implemented for the lognormal and gamma distributions in the R and stan code providing significant speedups to the fitting process (~10-20 times faster). The Weibull will be added in the next release.

Package

• Add {touchstone} based benchmarks for benchmarking R utility functions, and fitting the stan and fitdistplus models.
• Added a "How it works" vignette.
• Added R infrastructure for analytical solutions via the primary_censored_dist S3 class.
• Added Weibull analytical solution to "How it works" vignette.
• Added analytical solutions for the gamma and lognormal distributions with uniform primary censoring to both the R and stan code.
• Added numerical protection to ensure that CDFs for delays greater than the maximum truncation are exactly 1.

Pull requests

• Update codemeta.json by @github-actions in #74
• Update codemeta.json by @github-actions in #78
• Issue 36: Add benchmarking of R, Stan, and fitdistdoublecens by @seabbs in #79
• Issue 37 draft: Why it works vignette with analytic solutions by @SamuelBrand1 in #68
• Update codemeta.json by @github-actions in #81
• Issue 86: Fixes for "Why it works" vignette by @SamuelBrand1 in #88
• Update README by @github-actions in #89
• Issue 85: Add infrastructure for analytical solutions in R by @seabbs in #87
• Update README by @github-actions in #92
• Issue 85: Implement analytical solutions in R by @seabbs in #90
• Issue 76: Add weibull distribution to analytic solutions in vignette by @SamuelBrand1 in #93
• Issue 85: Analytical solutions in stan by @seabbs in #95
• Update README by @github-actions in #99
• Update codemeta.json by @github-actions in #98

New Contributors

• @SamuelBrand1 made their first contribution in #68

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.0