v4.7.1

MixedModels v4.7.1

NEWS file.
Diff since v4.7.0

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Closed issues:

• out of memory (#629)
• possible to fix the residual variance to a particular value (#630)
• Level 2 or 3 weights (#635)

Merged pull requests:

• Avoid repeating first objective evaluation in fit! (#637) (@dmbates)

v4.7.0

MixedModels v4.7.0

NEWS file.
Diff since v4.6.4

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Closed issues:

• Rank deficiency tests fail on nightly with Apple Silicon (#600)
• LoadError: PosDefException: matrix is not positive definite; Cholesky factorization failed (#611)
• export StatsModels.AbstractContrasts (#620)
• Predict: Response column must be initialized to a non-missing numeric value (#626)

Merged pull requests:

• attempt rescaling of poorly scaled problems (#615) (@palday)
• fix dependent column test on Apple silicon (#622) (@palday)
• Create docs-cleanup.yml (#624) (@palday)
• loosen type restriction on filename for optsum serialization and rename arg (#628) (@palday)

v4.6.4

MixedModels v4.6.4

NEWS file.
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Closed issues:

• Taking Symbol of LHS of transformed column triggering error (#613)

Merged pull requests:

• Simplify BLAS configuration printing (#597) (@dmbates)
• add in benchmark script for precompile (#610) (@palday)
• Stop exporting removed describeblocks (#612) (@nalimilan)
• support transformed response for predict (#614) (@palday)

v4.6.3

MixedModels v4.6.3

NEWS file.
Diff since v4.6.2

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Merged pull requests:

• CompatHelper: bump compat for StatsFuns to 1, (keep existing compat) (#607) (@github-actions[bot])
• first attempt at using SnoopCompile to speed things up (#608) (@palday)

v4.6.2

MixedModels v4.6.2

NEWS file.
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Merged pull requests:

• rework predict docstring (#603) (@palday)
• Efficiency improvements in predict (#604) (@palday)
• Add a missing space (#605) (@likanzhan)

v4.6.1

MixedModels v4.6.1

NEWS file.
Diff since v4.6.0

NB: Closed issues and pull requests are sorted temporally and so may
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Closed issues:

• Export StatsModels.AbstractContrasts from MixedModels.jl (#589)
• A simulated example where MixedModels.jl is non-trivially slower than lmer from lme4 (#591)

Merged pull requests:

• Update news entry for 4.6 (#590) (@palday)
• Style Guide Auto-Suggest and PR template (#595) (@palday)
• fix README formatting (#596) (@palday)
• broaden shortestcovint to fit collection (#598) (@palday)

v4.6.0

MixedModels v4.6.0

NEWS file.
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Closed issues:

• WARNING: `both GLM and Distributions export "Normal"; uses of it in module MixedModels must be qualified (#587)

Merged pull requests:

• Allow LMM to init GLMM (#588) (@palday)

v4.5.0

MixedModels v4.5.0

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Merged pull requests:

• Better handling of constant response (#578) (@palday)

v4.4.1

MixedModels v4.4.1

NEWS file.
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Closed issues:

• Return missing values for predict (#575)
• interval (#576)

Merged pull requests:

• Support for bootstrapping models with a mixture of correlation structures (#577) (@palday)

v4.4.0

MixedModels v4.4.0

NEWS file.
Diff since v4.3.0

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Merged pull requests:

• constructor for MixedModel dispatches to subtype (#572) (@palday)
• CompatHelper: bump compat for Arrow to 2, (keep existing compat) (#573) (@github-actions[bot])
• Correct a typo (#574) (@dmbates)