NEWS

EvidenceSynthesis 1.1.0 (2025-10-15)

Changes

  1. Adding prediction intervals to the output of computeBayesianMetaAnalysis().

  2. Updated style of plotMetaAnalysisForest() and added prediction intervals.

  3. Adhering to `ggplot2' version 4 syntax to avoid deprecation warnings.

EvidenceSynthesis 1.0.0 (2025-08-26)

Changes

  1. Supporting Bayesian hierarchical meta analysis with bias correction using negative control outcomes by adding computeHierarchicalMetaAnalysis().

  2. Providing additional example dataset -- profile likelihoods from LegendT2dm.

  3. Supporting simulation for Self-Controlled Case Series (SCCS) data. (see createSccsSimulationSettings()).

  4. Adding support for synthesizing pooled SCCS data.

  5. Introducing Hermite interpolation using a sparse grid with gradients. These approximations will be faster to construct, especially for models with many (nuisance) parameters such as the SCCS.

EvidenceSynthesis 0.5.0 (2023-05-08)

Changes

  1. Supporting Bayesian adaptive bias correction in sequential analysis by adding fitBiasDistribution(), sequentialFitBiasDistribution() and biasCorrectionInference() functions

  2. Added relevant plotting functions, plotBiasDistribution() and plotBiasCorrectionInference().

  3. Added a vignette on Bayesian adaptive bias correction.

EvidenceSynthesis 0.4.1 (2023-04-05)

Changes

  1. Added a video vignette.

EvidenceSynthesis 0.4.0 (2023-01-11)

Changes

  1. Supporting adaptive grid in plotLikelihoodFit() and computeFixedEffectMetaAnalysis() functions.

  2. Adding visualization of likelihood curves to plotMetaAnalysisForest().

EvidenceSynthesis 0.3.0 (2022-09-09)

Changes

  1. Supporting adaptive grid in computeBayesianMetaAnalysis() and approximateLikelihood() functions.

Bugfixes

1 Fixed error when approximating likelihood using grid (parameter to approximate could only be "x").

EvidenceSynthesis 0.2.3 (2021-01-29)

Changes

  1. Higher tolerance on skew-normal unit tests to prevent them from failing.

  2. Detecting and removing grid approximations with illegal values before computing meta-analysis.

EvidenceSynthesis 0.2.2 (2020-12-18)

Changes

  1. Documenting dependency on Java in the SystemRequirements field of the package DESCRIPTION.

  2. Adding seed argument to computeBayesianMetaAnalysis(). Defaults to a constant value for reproducability.

Bugfixes

  1. Fixed plotMetaAnalysisForest() when using grid approximations, including when providing approximations as tibble.

EvidenceSynthesis 0.2.1 (2020-11-20)

Changes

  1. computeBayesianMetaAnalysis() now outputs ESS.

  2. Checking whether required Java version (8 or newer) is installed.

EvidenceSynthesis 0.2.0 (2020-11-19)

Changes

  1. Preparing for CRAN release: Adding missing rmarkdown dependency to Suggests.

  2. Added computeConfidenceInterval() function.

  3. plotMetaAnalysisForest() function now works with normal and non-normal approximations.

  4. Grid points now evenly spaced on log scale, not HR scale.

EvidenceSynthesis 0.1.0

Changes

  1. Adding meta-analysis using local non-normal Cox likelihood approximations to avoid bias when sample size is small.

EvidenceSynthesis 0.0.5

Bug fixes

  1. Fixing build error in R 4.0.0.