NEWS

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BayesTools 0.2.17 (2024-02-20)

Features

• adding informed prior distributions for dichotomous and time to event outcomes based on Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews to prior_informed() function
• adding bridge object convenience function bridge_object() (fixes: https://github.com/FBartos/BayesTools/issues/28)
• adding Na/NaN tests for check_ functions (fixes: https://github.com/FBartos/BayesTools/issues/26)

Fixes

• ability to run more than 4 chains (fixes: https://github.com/FBartos/BayesTools/issues/20)

BayesTools 0.2.16 (2023-07-10)

Features

• update an existing JAGS fit with JAGS_extend() function
• new element of the autofit_control argument in JAGS_fit(): "restarts" allows to restart model initialization up to restarts times in case of failure

BayesTools 0.2.15 (2023-06-23)

Fixes

• fixing repeated print of previous prior distribution in model_summary_table() in case of prior_none()

BayesTools 0.2.14 (2023-05-30)

Features

• adding contrast = "meandif" to the prior_factor function which generates identical prior distributions for difference between the grand mean and each factor level
• adding contrast = "independent" to the prior_factor function which generates independent identical prior distributions for each factor level
• remove_column function for removing columns from BayesTools_table objects without breaking the attributes etc...
• adding empty table functions (https://github.com/FBartos/BayesTools/issues/10)
• adding remove_parameters argument to model_summary_table()
• adding multivariate point distribution functions
• adding point prior distribution as option to prior_factor with "meandif" and "orthonormal" contrasts
• adding marginal_posterior() function which creates marginal prior and posterior distributions (according to a model formula specification)
• adding Savage_Dickey_BF() function to compute density ratio Bayes factors based on marginal_posterior objects
• adding marginal_inference() function to combine information from marginal_posterior() and Savage_Dickey_BF()
• adding marginal_estimates_table() function to summarize marginal_inference() objects
• adding plot_marginal() function to visualize marginal_inference() objects

Changes

• contrast = "meandif" is now the default setting for prior_factor function
• depreciating transform_orthonormal argument in favor of more general transform_factors argument
• switching dummy contrast/factor attributes to treatment for consistency (https://github.com/FBartos/BayesTools/issues/23)

Fixes

• zero length inputs to check_bool(), check_char(), check_real(), check_int(), and check_list() do not throw error if allow_NULL = TRUE
• properly aggregating identical priors in the plotting function (previously overlying multiple spikes on top of each other when attributes did not match)
• student-t allowed as a prior distribution name
• fixing factor contrast settings in JAGS_evaluate_formula
• fixing spike prior transformations

BayesTools 0.2.13 (2022-09-14)

Features

• runjags_estimates_table() function can now handle factor transformations
• plot_posterior function can now handle factor transformations
• ability to remove parameters from the runjags_estimates_table() function via the remove_parameters argument

Fixes

• inability to deal with constant intercept in marglik formula calculation
• runjags_estimates_table() function can now remove factor spike prior distributions
• marginal likelihood calculation for factor prior distributions with spike
• mixing samples from vector priors of length 1
• same prior distributions not always combined together properly when part of them was generated via the formula interface

BayesTools 0.2.12 (2022-07-11)

Features

• stan_estimates_summary() function
• reducing dependency on runjags/rjags

Fixes

• dealing with posterior samples from rstan
• dealing with vector posterior samples
• fixing MCMC error of SD calculation for transformed samples (previously reported 100 times lower)

BayesTools 0.2.11 (2022-06-15)

Features

• adding Bernoulli prior distribution
• adding spike and slab type of prior distributions (without marginal likelihood computations/model-averaging capabilities)
• new vignette comparing Bayes factor computation via marginal likelihood and spike and slab priors

Fixes

• when a transformation is applied, JAGS summary tables now produce the mean of the transformed variable (previous versions incorrectly returned transformation of the mean)

Changes

• runjags_XXX_table functions are now also exported as JAGS_XXX_functions for consistency with the rest of the code

BayesTools 0.2.10 (2022-05-09)

Features

• trace, density, and autocorrelation diagnostic plots for JAGS models

BayesTools 0.2.9

Fixes

• dealing with NaNs in inclusion Bayes factors due to overflow with very large marginal likelihoods

BayesTools 0.2.8 (2022-04-20)

Fixes

• dealing with point prior distributions in JAGS_marglik_parameters_formula function
• posterior samples dropping name in runjags_estimates_table function
• ensemble_summary_table and ensemble_diagnostics_table function can create table without model components

BayesTools 0.2.7

Features

• JAGS_evaluate_formula for evaluating formulas based on data and posterior samples (for creating predictions etc)
• JAGS_parameter_names for transforming formula names into the JAGS syntax

BayesTools 0.2.6

Features

• plot_models implementation for factor predictors
• format_parameter_names for cleaning parameter names from JAGS
• mean, sd, and var functions now return the corresponding values for differences from the mean for the orthonormal prior distributions

Fixes

• proper splitting of transformed posterior samples based on orthonormal contrasts in runjags_summary_table function (previous version crashed under other than default fit_JAGS settings)
• always showing name of the comparison group for treatment contrasts in runjags_summary_table function
• better handling of transformed parameter names in plot_models function

BayesTools 0.2.5

Features

• add_column function for extending BayesTools_table objects without breaking the attributes etc...
• ability to suppress the formula parameter prefix in BayesTools_table functions with with formula_prefix argument

Fixes

• allowing to pass point prior distributions for factor type predictors

BayesTools 0.2.4

Features

• adding possibility to multiply a (formula) prior parameter by another term (via multiply_by attribute passed with the prior)
• t-test example vignette

BayesTools 0.2.3 (2022-04-02)

Fixes

• fixing error from trying to rename formula parameters in BayesTools tables when multiple parameters were nested within a component

BayesTools 0.2.2

Fixes

• fixing layering of prior and posterior plots in plot_posterior (posterior is now plotted over the prior)

BayesTools 0.2.1

Fixes

• fixing JAGS code for multivariate-t prior distribution

BayesTools 0.2.0

Changes

• ensemble inference, summary, and plot functions now extract the prior list from attribute of the fit objects (previously, the prior_list needed to be passed for each model within the model_list as the priors argument

Features

• adding formula interface for fitting and computing marginal likelihood of JAGS models
• adding factor prior distributions (with treatment and orthonormal contrasts)

BayesTools 0.1.4

Fixes

• fixing DOIs in the references file
• adds marglik argument inclusion_BF to deal with over/underflow (Issue #9)
• better passing of BF names through the ensemble_inference_table() (Issue #11)

Features

• adding logBF and BF01 options to ensemble_summary_table (Issue #7)

BayesTools 0.1.3 (2021-10-31)

Features

• prior_informed function for creating informed prior distributions based on the past psychological and medical research

BayesTools 0.1.2 (2021-10-04)

Fixes

• prior.plot can't plot "spike" with plot_type == "ggplot" (Issue #6)
• MCMC error/SD print names in BayesTools tables (Issue #8)
• JAGS_bridgesampling_posterior unable to add a parameter via add_parameters

Features

• interpret function for creating textual summaries based on inference and samples objects

BayesTools 0.1.1 (2021-07-13)

Fixes

• plot_posterior fails with only mu & PET samples (Issue #5)
• ordering by "probabilities" does not work in 'plot_models' (Issue #3)
• BF goes to NaN when only a single model is present in 'models_inference' (Issue #2)
• summary tables unit tests unable to deal with numerical precision
• problems with aggregating samples across multiple spikes in `plot_posterior'

Features

• allow density.prior with range lower == upper (Issue #4)
• moving rstan towards suggested packages

BayesTools 0.1.0 (2021-07-02)

• published on CRAN

BayesTools 0.0.0.9010

• plotting functions for models

BayesTools 0.0.0.9009

• plotting functions for posterior samples

BayesTools 0.0.0.9008

• plotting functions for mixture of priors

BayesTools 0.0.0.9007

• improvements to prior plotting functions

BayesTools 0.0.0.9006

• ensemble and model summary tables functions

BayesTools 0.0.0.9005

• posterior mixing functions

BayesTools 0.0.0.9004

• model-averaging functions

BayesTools 0.0.0.9003

• JAGS fitting related functions

BayesTools 0.0.0.9002

• JAGS bridgesampling related functions

BayesTools 0.0.0.9001

• JAGS model building related functions

BayesTools 0.0.0.9000

• priors and related methods