new features
- Implement the generalized extreme value
distribution via familygen_extreme_value
. - Improve flexibility of the
horseshoe
prior thanks to Juho Piironen. - Introduce auxiliary parameter
mu
as an alternative to specifying effects within
theformula
argument in function
brmsformula
. - Return fitted values of auxiliary parameters
via argumentauxpar
of methodfitted
. - Add vignette
"brms_multilevel"
, in which
the advanced formula syntax ofbrms
is explained
in detail using several examples.
other changes
- Refactor various parts of the package
to ease implementation of mixture and multivariate
models in future updates. This should not have
any user visible effects. - Save the version number of
rstan
in
elementversion
ofbrmsfit
objects.
bug fixes
- Fix a rare error when predicting
von_mises
models thanks to John Kirwan.