Newspaper for the EpiLPS package

Version 0.1.5 ### (2021-10-31)

• Release of first version on Github. Version name: “EpiLPS is born”.

Version 1.0.1 ### (2021-12-08)

• Version name: “EpiLPS smoothing”
• The epilps() routine can now be fitted to count data containing NAs.
• Possibility to add dates to the epilps() routine.
• Version 1.0.1 first submitted to CRAN on (2021-12-17).

Version 1.0.2 ### (2021-12-29)

• Version name: “EpiLPS smoothing”.
• Patched cubicBspline.cpp.

Version 1.0.5 ### (2022-05-05)

• Version name: “Schrödinger’s cat jumps out of the box”.
• Added correction factor on LPSMAP covariance matrix.
• episim() can now simulate from negative binomial distribution.

Version 1.0.6 ### (2022-08-08)

• Version name: “Welcome to the Metaverse”.
• Added midwindow option to the perfcheck routine. It reports EpiEstim reproduction number (Rt) estimates at the middle of the sliding window.

Version 1.0.7 ### (2023-01-17)

• Version name: “Thunderlight”.
• Added epicurve() routine to plot the epidemic curve based on incidence data.
• Added minor changes to plot outputs.

Version 1.0.8 ### (2023-02-12)

• Version name: “EpiLPS Kernels”.
• Added a kernel structure for a new architecture.

Version 1.1.0 ### (2023-04-04)

• Version name: “Reducing cyclomatic complexity”.
• Simplification of routine inputs.
• Separation of old epilps() routine into two smaller routines, namely estimR() and estimRmcmc().
• Added and simplified S3 methods.

Version 1.2.0 ### (2023-08-30)

• Version name: “Extension to incubation estimation”.
• Added priors to KerMCMC routine.
• Added routine for histogram smoothing with LPS.
• Added routines to estimate the incubation period distribution.

Version 1.3.0 ### (2024-03-07)

• Version name: “Extension to nowcasting”.
• Added nowcasting routine and associated S3 method.
• Added nowcastingR routine and associated S3 method.
• Added incidence and mortality datasets for Belgium.
• Corrected Rsd formula in KerRpostmap.cpp file.
• Added 0 as a lower bound on ylim for S3_Rt_plot.R.
• Updated KerMCMC.R to compute Dlogtar(zeta_prop, lambda_cur) only once in MALA.
• Updated CITATION file.