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Changes in version 2.0.1 (May 2019)

o  Deviance residuals were incorrect up to v.2.0. Wrong sign used has been corrected. 


Changes in version 2.0 (February 2019)

o  Many changes motivated by submitted paper:
   Andrade, BB; Matsushita, RY; Oliveira, SB (submitted) 
   Analyzing Count Data with the Touchard Model. 
   \emph{Annals of Applied Stats}.
o  toureg() extensively modified: regression with log(mu) included; methods 'qp1', 'qp2' and 'glm' added.
o  predict.toureg() and plot.toureg() modified and no longer compatible with previous version.
o  hatvalues() and cooks.distance() replaced by hvalues() and cooks.dist().
o  NEWS added.


Changes in version 1.0 (August 2018)

o  The 'touchard' package was first published on CRAN.
o  rtouch() modified so that numerical arguments other than 'n' are recycled 
   to the length of the result in accordance with other rng functions in R.
o  toureg() added: regression with log(lambda) = linear predictor.    
o  bug fixed in ptouch() when 'log=TRUE'. 
o  tau() added (formerly invisible) allowing computation by truncation of series
   and (added) by recursion (stopping at given relative error). 
o  Datasets Accidents and Crabs added.


Changes in versions 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.2.0 (2018)

o  Package made available through author's website following publication of
   Matsushita RY, Pianto D, Andrade BB, Cancado A, Silva S (2018) 
   The Touchard distribution, 
   \emph{Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods}, 
   <doi:10.1080/03610926.2018.1444177> .   
o  Contains only basic functionality: dtouch(), ptouch(), qtouch() and rtouch() and dataset Epilepsy.