PCNtoolkit version 0.23

Changes:

• SHASH functionality for HBR added
• Bug fix for normative model predict() function

PCNtoolkit version 0.22

Some minor updates and bug fixes:

• updates to documentation and tutorials
• updates to normative_parallel (interactive usage)
• updates to HBR (merge functionality)
• other minor bug fixes related to cross-validation (computation of error metrics), import problems and calibration statistics

PCNtoolkit version 0.21

Relatively minor updates with respect to version 0.20, including:

• documentation updates
• minor updates to warp (including bug fix for the compostition)
• software version is saved in models
• utility functions for calibration descriptives and extreme values

PCNtoolkit version 0.20

Changes:

• Major code refactoring
• Requirements updated for python 3.8.3
• Updates to documentation and Integrations with Read the Docs
• Addition of tutorial material
• Performance improvements for BLR (not compatible with previous versions)
• Addition of heteroskedastic noise for BLR
• Addition of Bayesian Information Criterion for BLR
• Addition of utility functions (e.g. design matrix construction)
• Several minor bug fixes (mostly related to HBR and BLR)

PCNtoolkit version 0.19

Changes:

• separate standardization of responses and covariates
• standardization is no longer on by default
• new standardization methods
• pymc3 version fixed
• minor bugs resolved (CV with HBR)

PCNtoolkit version 0.18

Changes:

• addition of cross-validation functionality for HBR
• minor bug fixes for HBR

v0.17

PCNtoolkit version 0.17:
Changes:

• New syntax for functions related to parallelization (python path is automatically generated)
• Support for slurm clusters has been added
• Updates to hierarchical Bayesian regression (different priors for intercepts and noise) for improved transfer
• Updated parameterisation for likelihood warping for improved stability
• Now uses a fixed pickle protocol for better interoperability
• Addition of a utility function for loading freesurfer measures
• Updated sphinx documentation

v0.16

Minor bug fix relative to release 0.15. Fixed a transpose operation that would cause normative.py to fail in certain cases

v0.15

A number of new functions have been implemented and we decided to use a new version numbering system.
This is version v0.15, the currently newest version. In future, we will increment this version numbering.