maSAE 2.0.3

• Removed the vignettes “A Taxonomy of Estimators” and “A Comparison of maSAE to forestinventory”.

maSAE 2.0.2

• Added JoSAE, rsae and sae to the Suggests-Field in file DESCRIPTION.

maSAE 2.0.1

• I have fixed the layout for tables in vignette “A Taxonomy of Estimators”.

maSAE 2.0.0

Major Modifications

• I have added slot auxiliaryWeights to class saeObj, allowing for weighting the auxiliary information for incomplete spatial support. This is inspired by package forestinventory.
• I have added the (pseudo) small area estimator and the (pseudo) synthetic estimator to the output while removing the attributes hinting to Mandallaz’ publications.

This lead to refactoring the functions used in method predict. I have nearly halved the lines of code in these functions, they are now much easier to read, understand and maintain.

The return value predict() has changed, it is giving the (pseudo) small area estimator and the (pseudo) synthetic estimator as well but not the attributes hinting to Mandallaz’ publications

Sticking with version 1.0.0

If you don’t care about weights and (pseudo) small area estimator and the (pseudo) synthetic estimators, you might want to stick with the old predict method from version 1.0.0. You can use
predict(..., version = "1.0.0)
or set options(maSAE_version = "1.0.0") to do so. The predictions for the extended (pseudo) synthetic estimator and its variance are identical for version 1.0.0 and 2.0.0. This is ensured by tests in runit_tests/runit-v1.R.

Minor Modifications

• Fixed tests for R 4.0.0 setting stringsAsFactors to FALSE by default.
• Added function bind_data to coerce different sampling phase data into a suitable data.frame.
• Added a vignette comparing packages maASE and forestinventory.
• Added a vignette that clarifies the estimators.

maSAE 1.0.0

• Formalized tests using testthat.
• Updated the help pages and vignette.
• Adapted using packager.
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.