NEWS

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Qtools 1.5.9 (2023-10-28)

• changes in qrr

Qtools 1.5.8 (2023-10-17)

• fixed bugs in qrr
• reorganized R code

Qtools 1.5.7 (2023-09-03)

• fixed bug in rq.counts
• new functions for quantile ratio regression

Qtools 1.5.6 (2022-05-30)

• fixed bug in rrq (thanks to Filippo Palomba for reporting)
• fixed bug in qlss.formula (thanks to Ilaria Prosdocimi for reporting)
• new function qexact

Qtools 1.5.5 (2021-07-28)

• fixed bug in dqc
• fixed bug in midq2q
• fixed bug in predict.midrq

Qtools 1.5.4 (2021-02-07)

• removed dependency on Gmisc after CRAN notified unsolved check problems with Gmisc

Qtools 1.5.3 (2020-11-27)

• new functions for directional quantile classification (dqc)
• fixed CRAN checks warning on stats::filter vs mice::filter

Qtools 1.5.2 (2020-07-08)

• new function midq2q for recovering classical quantiles from midquantiles
• fixed minor bug in vcov.midrq
• fixed bug in rq.counts
• revised plot.qlss and documentation file to avoid error on Mac

Qtools 1.5.1 (2019-12-13)

• fixed CRAN error related to _R_CLASS_MATRIX_ARRAY_ starting from R 4.0.0
• added robust option for vcov.midrq
• fixed bad coding in vcov.midrq that would lead to memory overload

Qtools 1.4.1 (2019-07-13)

• new function midrq to fit mid-quantile regression with discrete responses
• new function midecdf to fit conditional mid-distribution functions
• faster implementation of GOFTest (rcTest) in C++
• rq.counts no longer supports tranformations other than logarithmic
• removed functions for quantile regression with binary responses

Qtools 1.3 (2018-04-13)

• added bootstrap sampling in mice.impute.rq
• more robust checks in nlrq1 and nlLoss

Qtools 1.2 (2017-02-20)

• new function nlrq1 for optimization of one-parameter transformations
• argument 'conditional' added to impute.mice.rq
• bug fixed in rcTest when testing multiple quantiles
• seed in rcTest is no longer randomly generated if seed = NULL
• argument 'which' in plot.qlss changed to 'whichp'
• bug fixed in KhmaladzeFormat (significance of tests for individual slopes)

Qtools 1.1 (2016-05-26)

• bugs fixed in mice.impute.rq and mice.impute.rrq
• other bugs fixed
• revised all documentation
• revised qlss, tsrq functions
• revised functions for marginal effects
• new: predict.qlss, plot.qlss, print.qlss, plot.midecdf, plot.midquantile, print.midecdf, print.midquantile
• changed midquantile.ci to confint.midquantile (S3 method)

Qtools 1.0 (2016-02-04)

• package Qtools on CRAN