Tools for analyzing count data with the Touchard model (Matsushita et al., 2018, Comm Stat Th Meth
** NEWS ** ** News for Package \pkg{touchard} ** ** https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=touchard **
Changes in version 2.0 (February 2019)
o Many changes motivated by submitted paper: Andrade, BB; Matsushita, RY; Oliveira, SB (submitted) Analyzing Count Data with the Touchard Model. \emph{Annals of Applied Stats}. o toureg() extensively modified: regression with log(mu) included; methods 'qp1', 'qp2' and 'glm' added. o predict.toureg() and plot.toureg() modified and no longer compatible with previous version. o hatvalues() and cooks.distance() replaced by hvalues() and cooks.dist(). o NEWS added.
Changes in version 1.0 (August 2018)
o The 'touchard' package was first published on CRAN.
o rtouch() modified so that numerical arguments other than 'n' are recycled
to the length of the result in accordance with other rng functions in R.
o toureg() added: regression with log(lambda) = linear predictor.
o bug fixed in ptouch() when 'log=TRUE'.
o tau() added (formerly invisible) allowing computation by truncation of series
and (added) by recursion (stopping at given relative error).
o Datasets Accidents and Crabs added.
Changes in versions 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.2.0 (2018)
o Package made available through author's website following publication of
Matsushita RY, Pianto D, Andrade BB, Cancado A, Silva S (2018)
The Touchard distribution,
\emph{Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods},
doi:10.1080/03610926.2018.1444177 .
o Contains only basic functionality: dtouch(), ptouch(), qtouch() and rtouch() and dataset Epilepsy.