NEWS

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palm 1.1.5 (2023-09-22)

• Manually creating alias for package-level documentation.

palm 1.1.4 (2020-09-25)

• Another bug fix for bootstrap simulations with no generated children.
• Removing spatstat dependency.

palm 1.1.3 (2018-12-08)

• Minor change to one of the package's unit tests.

palm 1.1.2 (2018-11-14)

• Implemented multipattern model fitting, so a single process can be fitted to multiple independent patterns.
• Minor bug fixes for void process fits.

palm 1.1.1 (2018-05-03)

• Added the 'use.bobyqa' argument to fit.ns(), allowing optimisation via the bobyqa() function from the minqa package.
• Bug fix for bootstrap simulations with no generated children.

palm 1.1.0 (2017-11-23)

• Added sim.twocamera() to simulate data from two-camera aerial surveys.
• Added the 'parents' argument to simulation functions, so that the user can specify their own parent locations.
• Added a component containing parent locations to the output of sim.ns().
• Bug fix for buffer edge correction with fit.twocamera().
• Bug fix for user-specified parameter bounds with fit.void().

palm 1.0.0 (2017-01-30)

• First release of palm, after the original project was named 'nspp'.
• Includes functions to fit Neyman-Scott point processes (including Thomas process and Matern process variants) and void processes.
• Includes a function to estimate cetacean density from two-camera aerial surveys.
• Includes functions to simulate from all of the above models.