Changes in version 2.0.3.9000                      

  - FIXME

                 Changes in version 2.0.3 (2021-04-12)                  

  - Removed the vignettes "A Taxonomy of Estimators" and "A Comparison
    of maSAE to forestinventory".

                 Changes in version 2.0.2 (2020-11-02)                  

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

                 Changes in version 2.0.1 (2020-03-23)                  

  - I have fixed the layout for tables in vignette "A Taxonomy of
    Estimators".

                 Changes in version 2.0.0 (2020-03-13)                  

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.

                 Changes in version 1.0.0 (2020-01-09)                  

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