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algebraic.mle 1.2.0

New features

  • joint() composes independent MLEs with disjoint parameter sets into a joint MLE with block-diagonal covariance structure
  • combine() optimally weights independent MLEs for the same parameter via inverse-variance (Fisher information) weighting
  • as_dist() converts MLE objects to their asymptotic normal distributions, bridging to the algebraic.dist distribution algebra
  • Distribution methods on MLE objects: density(), cdf(), inv_cdf(), sup(), dim(), mean(), conditional()

Documentation

  • Rewrote package Description around “MLE as technology” narrative
  • Rewrote README to lead with the algebra (joint, combine, rmap, as_dist)
  • Added “The Algebra of MLEs” vignette demonstrating the full composition pipeline

Bug fixes

  • Fixed name-propagation issue in rmap() where c() merged parameter names with transformation output names

algebraic.mle 1.1.0

  • Add coef() S3 method for base R compatibility (delegates to params())
  • Add logLik() S3 method returning proper logLik object with df and nobs attributes, enabling automatic AIC() and BIC() support from base R
  • Fix rmap() to accept numeric n parameter (previously required integer)

algebraic.mle 1.0.0

  • Initial CRAN release
  • Core MLE class (mle) with methods for:
    • Parameter extraction (params, nparams)
    • Variance-covariance (vcov, se)
    • Confidence intervals (confint)
    • Model comparison (aic, loglik_val)
    • Bias and MSE estimation (bias, mse)
    • Fisher information (observed_fim)
    • Sampling from MLE distribution (sampler)
    • Predictive intervals (pred)
    • Expected values (expectation)
    • Marginal distributions (marginal)
  • Numerical optimization wrapper (mle_numerical) for optim() results
  • Bootstrap MLE (mle_boot) for small samples
  • MLE transformations via invariance property (rmap)
  • Weighted combination of MLEs (mle_weighted)
  • Three vignettes demonstrating usage:
    • Fitting common distributions to a DGP
    • Statistics and characteristics of the MLE
    • Data generating processes