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ems v1.3.11 (Release date: 2021-12-09)

    Changes:

1- Improvements at the icu dataset documentation.
2- Changes in functions calcurve, SRU, SRUcalc and tableStack so that the as.vector() method could be replaced by the as.numeric() one, due to a CRAN request.

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ems v1.3.10 (Release date: 2021-02-25)

    Changes:

1- Fixed links at Readme file.

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ems v1.3.9 (Release date: 2021-02-04)

    Changes:

1- Improvements in package documentation.

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ems v1.3.8 (Release date: 2021-02-01)

    Changes:

1- Fixed bugs in calcurve function when categories_option = 'patients'.


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ems v1.3.7 (Release date: 2020-10-30)

    Changes:

1- Improvements in t_factor function to avoid warning about sprintf in R devel.

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ems v1.3.6 (Release date: 2020-10-20)

    Changes:

1- Now one can change calcurve axis' title by using plot.calcurve.


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ems v1.3.5 (Release date: 2020-08-17)

    Changes:

1- Improvements in calcurve function. When categories_option = 'patients' xaxis' labels shows the predicted mortalities and not the decile number anymore.

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ems v1.3.4 (Release date: 2020-08-05)

    Changes:

1- Improvements in calcurve function. Now it allows to generate calibration curve by patients deciles.
2- Improvement in calcurve documentation: example changed.

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ems v1.3.3 (Release date: 2020-07-20)

    Changes:

1- Improvement in calcurve function. New arguments cultureCode and legend_inset included.

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ems v1.3.2 (Release date: 2020-03-18)

    Changes:

1- Fixing SMR.table function to use stringAsFactors = TRUE when necessary.


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ems v1.3.1 (Release date: 2020-02-03)

    Changes:

1- Improvements in mortality_rate: now the period in the function can refer to quarters or years.

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ems v1.3.0 (Release date: 2019-04-30)

    Changes:

1- New functions: R2sh, R2pm and cal.slope.
2- Now ems depends of packages boot, survival and rms.


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ems v1.2.07 (Release date: 2019-03-25)

    Changes:

1- Improvements in mortality_rate.

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ems v1.2.06 (Release date: 2019-03-12)

    Changes:

1- Improvements in SMR.table and tableStack.

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ems v1.2.05 (Release date: 2019-02-28)

    Changes:

1- The  default approximation method for funnel is now 'normal' besides 'exact'.
2- Improvements in miscellaneous documentation.
3- Improments in funnelEstimate function.


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ems v1.2.04 (Release date: 2019-01-29)

    Changes:

1- Fixed bugs in mortality_rate.

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ems v1.2.03 (Release date: 2019-01-25)

    Changes:

1- Function mortality_rate now calculate annual mortality rate too.

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ems v1.2.02 (Release date: 2019-01-09)

1- Function mortality_rate doens't need to receive monthOrder between 1 and 12 anymore.
2- mortality_rate now can receive an periodName argument and returns months and quarters names for them.


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ems v1.2.01 (Release date: 2018-11-16)

1- Fix in funnelEstimate for normal distribution when there is overdispersion.

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ems v1.2.00 (Release date: 2018-07-23)

1- New functions: calcurve and mortality.


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ems v1.1.06 (Release date: 2018-06-14)

1- Improvement of funnel function;
2- New intermediate functions: dummy.columns, rm.dummy.columns, funnelEstimate and winsorising;
3- Improvements in documentation;
4- Now SMR.table function says which levels were deleted due to zero observations;


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ems v1.0.00 (Release date: 2017-05-18)

    Submited to CRAN.