NEWS

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mcstate 0.9.13

• Particle filters now work with irregular and non-unit spaced time series data

mcstate 0.9.11

• Continuous time (ODE) models can now use workers for running chains in parallel with pmcmc

mcstate 0.9.9

• Basic inference now working with continuous time (ODE) models, via particle_filter and pmcmc

mcstate 0.9.2

• Support for adaptive proposals for deterministic models

mcstate 0.9.1

• Allow running a particle filter with multiple parameter sets and a single data set.
• The nested field on the particle filter class has been split into two logical fields: has_multiple_parameters and has_multiple_data

mcstate 0.9.0

• Deprecated 'discrete' argument to parameters in favour of 'integer' - affects if2_parameter, pmcmc_parameter, pmcmc_varied_parameter, smc2_parameter

mcstate 0.8.4

• Compiled compare functions now supported in more places - particle_deterministic and multistage models (#177)

mcstate 0.8.3

• Overhaul mcstate::pmcmc_chains_* to always use a file for communication, making them easier to understand and more robust (#179)
• New functions mcstate::pmcmc_chains_cleanup for removing files created by the above, and mcstate::pmcmc_chains_collect for automating collecting samples
• New, simpler, approach to pmcmc parallelisation which shares as much code with the above.

mcstate 0.8.2

• Allow filtering of the pmcmc chains during running (dropping burnin and filtering) to reduce memory usage when collectin large trajectories
• pmcmc no longer retains the initial parameter values

mcstate 0.8.1

• New argument to mcstate::particle_filter and mcstate::particle_deterministic, constant_log_likelihood which can be used to compute the probabilities of non-time series data (#185)

mcstate 0.8.0

• Rework the "nested" support; this now returns output in a different dimension order. Primarily this is an internal refactoring.
• Allow use of multistage parameters with deterministic models, and with nested parameters.
• Transform functions for multistage parameters now take info and not model as an argument, more in keeping with other functions.

mcstate 0.7.3

• Allow multistage parameters to work with the "deterministic" particle
• New mcstate::particle_deterministic_state object for advanced use of the deterministic particle
• Deterministic particle loses the run_many method

mcstate 0.7.2

• Multistage particle filters now cope with running data covering a subset of their stages
• Drop support for chnging initial step via particle filter initial function for deterministic and nested filters

mcstate 0.7.1

• New helper function mcstate::particle_filter_initial for creating particle filter initial state functions from restart data.
• Drop support for changing initial step via the particle filter initial function

mcstate 0.7.0

• Multi-stage particle filter implemented, allowing arbitrary changes to model structure during a particle filter run (#159)

mcstate 0.6.13

• Allow saving restart from the deterministic filter (#153)

mcstate 0.6.5

• Reduced overhead in parallel pmcmc with workers, and faster/less memory-hungry chain combination (#142)

mcstate 0.6.4

• Allow the particle filter to terminate early if we would not be interested in the result. This is useful for mcstate::pmcmc which can use it to stop calculating a likelood that would be rejected. Primarily useful when running with relatively low numbers of particles and a high variance in the estimator (#138)

mcstate 0.6.3

• Add support for running in "deterministic" mode with recent dust (#139)

mcstate 0.6.0

• Add an iterated filtering method via mcstate::if2 (#123)

mcstate 0.5.13

• New functions pmcmc_chains_prepare and pmcmc_chains_run which can be used to manually schedule chains over different computing resourcess (#129)

mcstate 0.5.12

• When rerun_every is specified, a new control parameter rerun_control can be used to make this stochastic rerun

mcstate 0.5.11

• The particle filter can now run entirely in compiled code if supported by the model. This may give a small performance gain, particularly on very simple models, or of the model has an expensive compare function (#118)

mcstate 0.5.9

• Add nested_step_ratio parameter to pmcmc_control for controlling the ratio of fixed:varied steps for nested pMCMC

mcstate 0.5.5

• New array helper mcstate::array_flatten for unshaping an array

mcstate 0.5.4

• Remove deprecated arguments to pmcmc (these were deprecated in 0.3.0) (#114)

mcstate 0.5.3

• Bugfix in index for nested particle filters.

mcstate 0.5.2

• Extend support of pmcmc to pmcmc_parameters_nested objects.

mcstate 0.5.1

• Added particle_filter_state_nested and extended particle_filter to handle pmcmc_parameters_nested objects.

mcstate 0.5.0

• Basic SMC^2 implementation (smc2()) as an alternative to pmcmc. This is very embryonic and the interface will change over future versions to support things like restarting and saving trajectories (#13)

mcstate 0.4.8

• Bug fixes in $proposal method of pmcmc_parameters_nested for discrete and bounded parameters.

mcstate 0.4.7

• Added helper methods mcstate::array_bind, mcstate::array_reshape and mcstate::array_drop to simplify some common array operations (#106)

mcstate 0.4.6

• Added pmcmc_varied_parameter for parameters that can vary between different populations.
• Added pmcmc_parameters_nested to hold parameters that vary between populations (pmcmc_varied_parameter) and parameters that are the same (fixed) between populations (pmcmc_parameter).

mcstate 0.4.4

• Fix performance regression added in 0.4.3

mcstate 0.4.3

• Support for incrementally running a particle filter (up to some point in the time series) and forking these partial runs; see the $begin_run method on the particle filter (#78)

mcstate 0.4.2

• Fix typo in sir_models.Rmd

mcstate 0.4.1

• New $fix() method on pmcmc_parameters objects for fixing the value for a subset of parameters before running with pmcmc (#98)

mcstate 0.4.0

• Compare functions no longer use (or accept) the prev_state argument and now use just the current model state. This requires that models compute things like "daily incidence" within model code but simplifies use with irregular time series (#94)

mcstate 0.3.4

• Support for "compiled compare functions", introduced in dust 0.6.1 (#92)

mcstate 0.3.1

• The particle filter can now return the entire model state at points during the run, with argument save_restart to $run() and method $restart_state() (#86)
• The pmcmc can returned sample restart state using the save_restart argument to mcstate::pmcmc_control which can be used to restart the pMCMC part way along the time series (see vignette("restart"))

mcstate 0.3.0

• pmcmc is now controllable via a new mcstate::pmcmc_control object
• pmcmc can run chains in parallel using callr, by specifying n_workers = n for n greater than 1.

mcstate 0.2.16

• pmcmc adds new rerun_every argument to rerun the particle filter unconditionally.