NEWS

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dendrometry 0.0.4 (2025-10-08)

• Enhancement: Complete overhaul of distribution fitting framework

  • New function fit_dist(): Unified parameter estimation for probability distributions
    • Supports multiple estimation methods: MLE (Maximum Likelihood), MPS (Maximum Product Spacing) and Method of Moments
    • Implements ties correction methods: Cheng & Amin (1983)
    • Provides robust error handling with variance-covariance matrix computation
    • Returns comprehensive goodness-of-fit statistics: log-likelihood, AIC, BIC, and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test
  • New function fit_weibull_plot(): Enhanced Weibull distribution fitting with visualization
    • Replaces and extends adjWeibull() functionality (kept as alias for backward compatibility)
    • Adds confidence band visualization using delta method and parametric bootstrap
    • Supports standard and three-parameter Weibull distributions
    • Customizable plotting with parameter estimates and confidence intervals in legend
  • New distribution functions: dweibull3(), pweibull3(), qweibull3(), rweibull3() for three-parameter Weibull distribution
  • New S3 methods for fit_dist class: print(), summary(), coef(), vcov(), confint(), logLik(), AIC(), BIC()

• Improvements:

  • Refactored codebase for better maintainability and readability
  • makedata() function now supports unlimited number of grouping factors
  • Enhanced tolerance parameters (tol_spacing, tol_param) for numerical stability
  • Better starting value computation for optimization
  • Improved convergence diagnostics

dendrometry 0.0.3 (2025-04-24)

• New Functions: adjWeibull, barkFactor, basal, basalContribution, densityRegen, param and others.

• New methods: print.slope, print.angle.

• height' s argument 'base' becomes 'bottom'.

• diameterMean allows 'dbh' only as argument.

dendrometry 0.0.2 (2023-02-07)

• added functions: stacking, circum, makedata, basal, sampleSize

• both of factorize and factorise work now

• diameterMean allows arguments factor1, factor2 and factor3

dendrometry 0.0.1 (2022-08-22)

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