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R package singlercapture by ncn-foreigners — release notes from GitHub.

github.com/ncn-foreigners/singlercapture ↗

singleRcapture reached 1.0.0 with no release notes at all — the arc has to be read backwards.

capture-recapturepopulation estimationzero-truncated modelsbootstrapr package
◆Current state
A package for single-source capture-recapture population size estimation: zero-truncated Poisson, geometric and negative binomial regression, Chao and Zelterman mixture models, analytic and bootstrap variance estimation, all behind estimatePopsize(). The 0.2.x line professionalised it — an offset argument, parallel bootstrap and dfbeta, faster semiparametric sampling, a singleRStaticCountData subclass explicitly created so a companion package could fit models from countreg and VGAM, then interaction-term and anova fixes. The 1.0.0 release carries nothing but a link to the compare view.
◆Where it's heading
The direction visible in 0.2.x is outward: refactoring for maintainability, extending to models fitted elsewhere via a subclass, adding a JSS-paper vignette, and pushing coverage towards 90%. That is a package preparing to be cited and extended rather than one still finding its methods. The 1.0.0 tag presumably marks the end of that stabilisation, but the entry itself gives no evidence either way.
◆Prediction
Not readable from this feed — the 1.0.0 notes are empty, so whether the major version marks an API freeze or a breaking change cannot be determined from the entries shown.

◆Recent moves

  1. 6mo ago

    singleRcapture 1.0.0

    The 1.0.0 release ships with an empty body — a single link to the 0.2.3 comparison and nothing else. The version number implies a stabilisation milestone after the 0.2.x refactoring, but nothing in the entry states what changed.

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  2. 1y ago

    anova and other broken methods fixed

    Fixes anova and other methods that were not working, with tests added to cover them. A correctness patch ahead of the major version.

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  3. 1y ago

    Interaction terms fixed; logLik returns gradients and hessians

    Bundles several development versions: interaction terms in formulas now respected, standard errors in predicted means corrected, logLik gains a type argument returning the likelihood function or its gradient and hessian, and a JSS-paper vignette is added. Coverage reaches nearly 90%.

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  4. 2y ago

    Subclass opens population estimation to countreg and VGAM fits

    Adds parallel bootstrap and dfbeta, an offset argument, deviance for negative binomial models, a faster semiparametric bootstrap, and the singleRStaticCountData subclass created so a companion package can estimate population size from countreg and VGAM fits. The release that opened the package to models fitted elsewhere.

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  5. 4y ago

    First usable release: zero-truncated and mixture estimators

    The first usable version: zero-truncated Poisson, geometric and negative binomial regression plus Chao and Zelterman mixture models, with analytic, nonparametric and parametric bootstrap variance estimation and two confidence interval constructions behind estimate_popsize().

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