THIS IS THE CHANGELOG OF THE "maxLik" PACKAGE

Please note that only the most significant changes are reported here.
A full ChangeLog is available in the log messages of the SVN repository
on R-Forge.


     CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4-8 (2020-03-22)

* added two vignettes: "Getting started with maximum likelihood and maxLik" and
   "maximum likelihood estimation with maxLik"

     CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4-6 (2020-11-24)

* changed the name of internal function head... to headDots to avoid issues
  with perforce VCS

* maxNR and friends now correctly return code 8 if reltol stopping condition invoked

* documentation fixes and clean-ups

     CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4-4 (2020-07-08)

* fixed another issue with CRAN tests on ATLAS

     CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4-2 (2020-07-08)

* fixed CRAN test issues

      CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4-0 (2020-07-07)

* includes stochastic gradient ascent and Adam optimizer

      CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3-10 (2020-05-13)

* fixed an issue where maxControl() silently ignored a number of
  parameters

* print.summary.maxim accepts parameters max.rows and max.cols,
  and only prints this many columns/rows of output matrices

      CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3-8 (2019-05-18)

* better handling of matrix class

      CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3-8 (2020-01-01)

* better handling of matrix class

      CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3-6 (2019-05-18)

* 'maxim' objects now support 'maxValue' and 'gradient' methods.
* tests cleaned and give fewer notes on check

      CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3-4 (2015-11-08)

* If Hessian is not negative definite in maxNRCompute, the program now
  attempts to correct this repeatedly, but not infinite number of
  times.  If Marquardt selected, it uses Marquardt lambda and it's
  update method.

* Fixed an issue where summary.maxLik did not use 'eigentol' option for 
  displaying standard errors

   
      CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3-2 (2015-10-28)

* Corrected a bug that did not permit maxLik to pass additional arguments 
  to the likelihood function

      CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3-0 (2015-10-24)
     
* maxNR & friends now support argument 'qac' (quadratic approximation
  correction) option that allows to choose the behavior if the next
  guess performs worse than the previous one.  This includes the
  original step halving while keeping direction, and now also
  Marquardt's (1963) shift toward the steepest gradient.

* all max** functions now take control options in the form as
  'control=list(...)', analogously as 'optim'.  The former method of
  directly supplying options is preserved for compatibility reasons.

* sumt, and stdEr method for 'maxLik' are now in namespace

* the preferred way to specify the amount of debugging information is
  now 'printLevel', not 'print.level'.


      CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2-4 (2014-12-31)

* Equality constraints (SUMT) checks conformity of the matrices

* coef.maxim() is now exported

* added argument "digits" to print.summary.maxLik()

* added argument "digits" to condiNumber.default()

* further arguments to condiNumber.maxLik() are now passed to
condiNumber.default() rather than to hessian()


      CHANGES IN VERSION 1.2-0 (2013-10-22)

* Inequality constraints now support multiple constraints 
  (B may be a vector).

* Fixed a bug in documentation, inequality constraint requires
  A %*% theta + B > 0, not >= 0 as stated earlier.

* function sumKeepAttr() is imported from the miscTools package now (before
maxLik() could not be used by another package when this package imported (and 
not depended on) the maxLik package) (bug reported and solution provided by
Martin Becker)


      CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1-8 (2013-09-17)

* fixed bug that could occur in the Newton-Raphson algorithm if the 
log-likelihood function returns a vector with observation-specific values
or if there are NAs in the function values, gradients, or Hessian


      CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1-4 (2013-09-16)

* the package code is byte-compiled

* if the log-likelihood function contains NA, the gradient is not calculated; 
if components of the gradient contain NA, the Hessian is not calculated

* slightly improved documentation

* improved warning messages and error messages when doing constrained
optimisation

* added citation information

* added start-up message 


	CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1-2 (2012-03-04)

* BHHH only considers free parameters when analysing the size of gradient

* numericGradient and numericHessian check for the length of
  vector function


        CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1-0 (2012-01-...)

* Conjugate-gradient (CG) optimization  method included.

* it is guaranteed now that the variance covariance matrix returned 
by the vcov() method is always symmetric.

* summary.maxLik is guaranteed to use maxLik specific methods, even if
  corresponding methods for derived classes have higher priority.


	CHANGES IN VERSION 1.0-2 (2011-10-16)

This is mainly bugfix release.

* maxBFGSR works with fixed parameters.

* maxBFGS and other optim-based routines work with both fixed
  parameters and inequality constraints.

* constrOptim2 removed from API.  Names of it's formal arguments are
  changed.


            CHANGES IN VERSION 1.0-0 (2010-10-15)

* moved the generic function stdEr() including a default method and a method
for objects of class "lm" to the "miscTools" package (hence, this package now
depends on the version 0.6-8 of the "miscTools" package that includes stdEr()

* if argument print.level is 0 (the default) and some parameters are
automatically fixed during the estimation, because the returned log-likelihood
value has attributes "constPar" and "newVal", the adjusted "starting values"
are no longer printed.


            CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8-0

* fixed bug that occured in maxBFGS(), mxNM(), and maxSANN if the model had only
one parameter and the function specified by argument "grad" returned a vector
with the analytical gradients at each observation

* maxNR() now performs correctly with argument "iterlim" set to 0

* maxNR, maxBHHH(), maxBFGS(), maxNM(), and maxSANN() now use attributes
"gradient" and "hessian" of the object returned by the log-likelihood function;
if supplied, these are used instead of arguments "grad" and "hess"

* added function maxBFGSR() that implements the BFGS algorithm (in R); this
function was originally developed by Yves Croissant and placed in the "mlogit"
package

* maxNR() now has an argument "bhhhHessian" (defaults to FALSE): if this
argument is TRUE, the Hessian is approximated by the BHHH method (using
information equality), i.e. the BHHH optimization algorithm is used

* maxLik() now has an argument 'finalHessian'; if it is TRUE, the final
Hessian is returned; if it is the character string "BHHH", the BHHH
approximation of the Hessian matrix (using information equality) with attribute
"type" set to "BHHH" is returned

* maxNR(), maxBHHH(), maxBFGS(), maxNM(), and maxSANN() now additionally return
a component "gradientObs" that is the matrix of gradients evaluated at each
observation if argument "grad" returns a matrix or argument "grad" is not
specified and argument "fn" returns a vector

* the definitions of the generic functions nObs() and nParam() have been moved
to the "miscTools" package

* added methods bread() and estfun() for objects of class "maxLik" (see
documentation of the generic functions bread() and estfun() defined in package
"sandwich")

* replaced argument "activePar" of numericGradient(), numericHessian(), and
numericNHessian() by argument "fixed" to be consistent with maxLik(), maxNR(),
and the other maxXXX() functions

* maxNR(), maxBHHH(), maxBFGSYC(), maxBFGS(), maxNM(), maxSANN(), and
summary.maxLik() now return component "fixed" instead of component "activePar"


            CHANGES IN VERSION 0.7-2

* corrected negative definiteness correction of Hessian in maxNR() which led
to infinite loops

* changed stopping condition in sumt(): instead of checking whether estimates
are stimilar, we check for penalty being low now


            CHANGES IN VERSION 0.7-0

* Holding parameters fixed in maxNR() (and hence, also in maxBHHH()) should
  now be done by the new (optional) argument "fixed", because it is convenient
  to use than the "old" argument "activePar" in many situations. However, the
  "old" argument "activePar" is kept for backward-compatibility.

* added (optional) argument "fixed" to functions maxBFGS(), maxNM(), and maxSANN(),
  which can be used for holding parameters fixed at their starting values

* added function constrOptim2(), which is a modified copy of constrOptim()
  from the "stats" package, but which includes a bug fix

* added optional argument "cand" to function maxSANN(), which can be used to
  specify a function for generating a new candidate point (passed to argument
  "gr" of optim())

* added argument "random.seed" to maxSANN() to ensure replicability

* several mainly smaller improvements in ML estimations with linear equality
  and inequality constraints (via sumt() and constrOptim2(), respectively)

* several internal changes that make the code easier to maintain


            CHANGES IN VERSION 0.6-0

* maxLik() can perform maximum likelihood estimations under linear equality
  and inequality constraints on the parameters now (see documentation of the
  new argument "constraints"). Please note that estimations under constraints
  are experimental and have not been thoroughly tested yet.

* a new method "stdEr" to extract standard errors of the estimates has been
  introduced

* added a "coef" method for objects of class "summary.maxLik" that extracts
  the matrix of the estimates, standard errors, t-values, and P-values

* some minor bugs have been fixed

* we did some general polishing of the returned object and under the hood


            CHANGES IN VERSION 0.5-12 AND BEFORE

* please take a look at the log messages of the SVN repository on R-Forge
