Improve fitting the two-component error model

with respect to accuracy and robustness.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

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-# mkin 0.9.47.6 (2018-09-18)
+# mkin 0.9.47.6 (2018-09-21)
 
 - 'add_err': Respect the argument giving the number of replicates in the synthetic dataset
 
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 
 - 'mkinpredict': Make the function generic and create a method for mkinfit objects
 
+- 'mkinfit': Improve the correctness of the fitted two component error model by fitting the mean absolute deviance at each observation against the observed values, weighting with the current two-component error model
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+- 'tests/testthat/test_irls.R': Test if the components of the error model used to generate the data can be reproduced with moderate accuracy
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 # mkin 0.9.47.5 (2018-09-14)
 
 - Make the two-component error model stop in cases where it is inadequate to avoid nls crashes on windows