NEWS

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countSTAR 1.2.0 (2026-04-03)

countSTAR 1.1.0

• Reduced package dependencies
• New transformation bnp for blm_star() and spline_star()
• More efficient samplers for blm_star() and spline_star()
• New HPDregion() to compute highest posterior (predictive) density regions
• New rdir() for Dirichlet sampling
• Updated g_inv() for stable and efficient computing of inverse bnp transformation
• For randomForest_star() and gbm_star(), lowered the tolerance tol for convergence

countSTAR 1.0.2 (2023-06-30)

• Added roaches dataset to package
• Fixed bug in blm_star() function

countSTAR 1.0.1 (2023-04-10)

• Initial version
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.