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hstats vs malariasimulation
A side-by-side editorial comparison of hstats and malariasimulation — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
hstats vs malariasimulation: at a glance
What is hstats?
hstats settled into maintenance after its 1.0 restructuring, with model coverage the only thing still growing.
hstats computes Friedman's H-statistics, partial dependence, ICE curves and permutation importance for any model exposing a prediction function. The releases in view are consolidation: performance work on plain data.frames, ICE facetting for multioutput models, ranger survival support, and a ggplot 4.0 compatibility pass in 2025. The package moved to the ModelOriented organisation in 1.2.0.
What is malariasimulation?
An individual-based malaria model that added Plasmodium vivax, hypnozoites and all
malariasimulation is an individual-based malaria transmission model. The visible history is short but consequential: v2.0.2 extended the model beyond its original parasite species to Plasmodium vivax, and the most recent tag is not a code release at all but a coordinated snapshot freezing the whole malariaverse suite at a known state.
hstats vs malariasimulation: editorial side-by-side
hstats
0.0ANALYTICS
hstats settled into maintenance after its 1.0 restructuring, with model coverage the only thing still growing.
◆ Current state
hstats computes Friedman's H-statistics, partial dependence, ICE curves and permutation importance for any model exposing a prediction function. The releases in view are consolidation: performance work on plain data.frames, ICE facetting for multioutput models, ranger survival support, and a ggplot 4.0 compatibility pass in 2025. The package moved to the ModelOriented organisation in 1.2.0.
◆ Where it's heading
The structural work — the hstats_matrix object, quantile approximation, revised plotting — landed in 1.0.0 just outside this window, and nothing since has changed the package's shape. What continues is model-coverage plumbing: mlr3 classification modes, ranger survival behind a survival argument, and factor predictions added in 1.1.0 then removed again in 1.2.0. The most recent releases are compatibility-driven, tracking ggplot2 rather than the interaction statistics.
◆ Prediction
Expect the next release to be another dependency-compatibility pass or a new model backend working out of the box, rather than new interaction statistics.
malariasimulation
0.0ANALYTICS
An individual-based malaria model that added Plasmodium vivax, hypnozoites and all
◆ Current state
malariasimulation is an individual-based malaria transmission model. The visible history is short but consequential: v2.0.2 extended the model beyond its original parasite species to Plasmodium vivax, and the most recent tag is not a code release at all but a coordinated snapshot freezing the whole malariaverse suite at a known state.
◆ Where it's heading
The direction is toward being a multi-species platform rather than a single-parasite simulator, and toward being usable as a reproducible research artefact. The P. vivax work was not a wrapper over the existing model — it added hypnozoites, competing hazards, an equilibrium solution and species-specific immunity behaviour, while deliberately removing blood and severe immunity components that do not apply. The snapshot tag addresses the other half of that: analyses built on a fast-moving suite need a version set they can return to.
◆ Prediction
The snapshot being tagged immediately before an announced update suggests the next release changes enough to break existing analyses, which is why the freeze was published first. The entries do not say what that update contains.
Alternatives to hstats and malariasimulation
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either hstats or malariasimulation.
geoarrow-r
geoarrow tracks the GeoArrow spec and otherwise just keeps compiling
n2khab
n2khab keeps retracting interpretations of habitat data it can't actually support
tidypolars
tidypolars is grinding toward complete dplyr coverage, one supported function at a time
OneSampleMR
OneSampleMR found that argument order in a formula was silently changing its estimates
bpbounds
bpbounds found the same swapped-cell bug twice and clamped its bounds back into range
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Recent activity from hstats and malariasimulation
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 2mo agomalariasimulationmalariaverse suite frozen at a reproducible snapshot tag
- 10mo agohstatsggplot 4.0 compatibility and test coverage
- 1y agomalariasimulationPlasmodium vivax model with hypnozoites and relapse dynamics ⚡
- 1y agohstatsranger survival models supported out of the box
- 2y agohstatsMoves to ModelOriented; factor predictions removed
- 2y agohstatsICE facets for multioutput models; mlr3 fixes
- 2y agohstatsFaster data.frame paths; NaN H-statistics fixed
- 2y agohstatsFactor predictions and line-style 2D partial dependence
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between hstats and malariasimulation?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. hstats and malariasimulation are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is hstats better than malariasimulation?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. hstats and malariasimulation are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to hstats?
Top hstats alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "hstats alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/hstats for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to malariasimulation?
Top malariasimulation alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "malariasimulation alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/malariasimulation for the full list with editorial commentary on each.