Changes in Version 1.2-8

  o Some examples from the AER book lead to small numeric differences across different
    platforms. Hence, these have been excluded now from tests/Ch-*.R with an IGNORE_RDIFF
    comment for CRAN.

  o The examples on the manual pages for the books CameronTrivedi1998, Greene2003,
    WinkelmannBoes2009 are now excluded from testing to reduce the computational demands
    on CRAN. The corresponding analyses are mostly available on the manual pages for the
    underlying data sets, though.


Changes in Version 1.2-8

  o Starting from survival >= 3.1-6 the survival provides (or corrected) some standard
    S3 methods for "survreg" objects: fitted(), nobs(), weights(), vcov(). Previously,
    these were registered by AER" in order to work for "tobit" objects. For now,
    AER registers the methods for "tobit" objects. In the future, the methods will
    be dropped by AER altogether and inherited from survival (when AER depends on
    survival >= 3.1-6).


Changes in Version 1.2-7

  o Diagnostic tests ivdiag() for _weighted_ instrumental variables regression
    was incorrect as weights were erroneously ignored (detected and tested by
    Jonathan Siverskog).

  o vcov() method for "survreg" objects in "survival" currently (version 2.44-1.1)
    provides no row/column names. Hence, a new vcov() method for "tobit" objects
    was added in "AER" mimicking the naming conventions from survival:::summary.survreg.
    Analogously, a bread() method was added for "tobit" objects that calls
    the vcov() method internally.

  o linearHypothesis() method for tobit() objects no longer assumes that a scale
    parameter was estimated as part of the model. This enables the somewhat
    unusual but possible case of summary(tobit(..., dist = "exponential")).

  o In examples/demos/tests with calls to set.seed(...) the RNG version is now fixed
    to suppressWarnings(RNGversion("3.5.0")) to keep results exactly reproducible
    after fixing RNG problems in R 3.6.0.

  o New errata item in vignette("AER", package = "AER"): The formula interface for
    pgmm() has changed. As of "plm" version 1.7-0, the function dynformula() is
    deprecated. Examples, tests, and demos have been adapted accordingly.

  o In tests/Ch-Intro.R some quantreg computations are now wrapped into try()
    because the summary method yields non-finite standard errors on some platforms.
    
  o In ?CameronTrivedi1998 one version of the negbin-negbin hurdle model is now
    wrapped into try() because evaluating the log-likelihood at the given start
    values becomes too unstable on some platforms.


Changes in Version 1.2-6

  o Added update() method for "ivreg" objects that correctly handles the
    two-part right-hand side of the formula (suggested by Matthieu Stigler).

  o Use pdata.frame() instead of plm.data() as preparation for modeling
    with "plm" and certain "systemfit" functions (requires systemfit
    1.1-20).

  o The model.matrix() method for "ivreg" objects erroneously dropped
    the dimension of single-column projected regressor matrices. This
    propagated to the estfun() method and hence lead to problems with
    sandwich covariances (reported by Justus Winkelmann).

  o In a bug fix the survival package changed the internal structure of
    survreg()$y starting from survival 2.42-7. This leads to incorrect
    summary() output for "tobit" objects which has been worked around
    now. Thanks to Terry Therneau for pointing out the problem and suggesting
    a fix.


Changes in Version 1.2-5

  o Support for aliased coefficients in ivreg() (suggested and tested by
    Liviu Andronic).

  o New data sets GoldSilver, MotorCycles2 and MSCISwitzerland, taken from
    Franses, van Dijk, Opschoor (2014): "Time Series Models for Business and
    Economic Forecasting", 2nd ed. For replication of the corresponding
    examples, several packages were added to the list of 'suggested' packages 
    (including fGarch, forecast, longmemo, rugarch, vars).

  o Small improvements in DESCRIPTION/Imports and NAMESPACE for R CMD check.
  

Changes in Version 1.2-4

  o Reference output updated for recent versions of R.
  

Changes in Version 1.2-3

  o Package "splines" is loaded explicitly if needed (rather than assuming
    that it is loaded along with "survival").

  o Some URLs in the manual pages had been outdated and are updated (or omitted)
    now.


Changes in Version 1.2-2

  o Another bug fix in the new summary(ivreg_object, diagnostics = TRUE). If
    sandwich standard errors (or other vcov) were used, the chi-squared form
    rather than the F form of the diagnostic Wald tests was computed and hence
    the p-values were incorrect.
    
  o If there is more than one endogenous variable, summary(ivreg_object,
    diagnostics = TRUE) now reports separate tests of weak instruments for
    each endogenous variable.

    
Changes in Version 1.2-1

  o Bug fix in the new summary(ivreg_object, diagnostics = TRUE). If there
    is more than one endogenous variable, the degrees of freedom (and hence
    the associated p-values) for the Sargan test were too large.
    
  o The examples employing "rgl" for 3d visualizations (e.g., for the SIC33
    data) are not tested anymore in R CMD check (as "rgl" currently has some
    problems on CRAN's checks for OS X).


Changes in Version 1.2-0

  o The summary() method for ivreg() now has a diagnostics=FALSE argument.
    If set to TRUE, three diagnostic tests are performed: an F test of
    the first stage regression for weak instruments, a Wu-Hausman test
    for endogeneity, and a Sargan test of overidentifying restrictions
    (only if there are more instruments than regressors).

  o Added new data set EquationCitations provided by Fawcett & Higginson
    (2012, PNAS).

  o Changes in Depends/Imports/Suggests due to new CRAN check requirements.
    In particular, the "Formula" package is now only imported (but not
    loaded into the search path).


Changes in Version 1.1-9

  o Recompressed data sets in package to reduce file storage requirements.
  
  o ivreg() failed when used without instruments. Now fixed.

  o The summary() for ivreg() displayed the degrees of freedom of the
    overall Wald test incorrectly (although the p-value was computed
    correctly).
  
  o Some technical changes for new R 2.14.0, e.g., adding Authors@R in
    DESCRIPTION, recompressing data, etc.


Changes in Version 1.1-8
  
  o The hat values for instrumental variables regressions are now
    computed in the hatvalues() method and not within ivreg.fit()
    to save computation time for large data sets.

  o Added nobs() method for "survreg" objects (and thus "tobit" objects).
    Modified "ivreg" objects so that default nobs() methods works.

  o Labeling in coeftest() method for "multinom" objects with
    binary responses has been fixed.
  
  o Example 21.4 in ?Greene2003 now employs the scaled regressor
    fincome/10000.


Changes in Version 1.1-7
  
  o Adapted some example in ?Greene2003 in order to work both with
    the old and new "dynlm" package. dynlm() now provides convenient
    support for linear time trends via dynlm(y ~ trend(y)) etc.    


Changes in Version 1.1-6
  
  o Adapted code/examples/tests to new car version which has deprecated
    linear.hypothesis() in favor of linearHypothesis().


Changes in Version 1.1-5
  
  o CPS1985 now has 534 observations (not 533 as in prior releases),
    the original observation 1 had been omitted inadvertently. See
    also the errata in vignette("AER", package = "AER").

  o Data and examples for Winkelmann and Boes (2009),
    "Analysis of Microdata" (2nd ed.) have been added. For details and
    extensive (but not quite complete) replication code see
    help("WinkelmannBoes2009") as well as help("GSS7402") and
    help("GSOEP9402").

  o As announced in the changes for version 1.1-0 of the "AER" package,
    the variable "earnings" has now been removed from the
    PSID1976 (aka Mroz) data. In 1.1-0 it was renamed to "wage"
    to avoid confusion with other data sets.

  o The coeftest() method for "polr" objects used to return wrong
    standard errors (and hence wrong z tests) for the last intercept.
    This was caused by an inconsistency between the summary() and
    vcov() methods for "polr" objects which has been improved in
    recent versions of the "MASS" package. The correct results are
    computed by coeftest() for "polr" objects computed with MASS
    version >= 7.3-6. See also the errata in vignette("AER",
    package = "AER")

  o The paper describing the various versions of the Grunfeld data
    has been accepted for publication in the German Economic Review.
    An updated version of the manuscript and associated replication
    files -- mostly based on data("Grunfeld", package = "AER") --
    is available from http://statmath.wu.ac.at/~zeileis/grunfeld/.

  o Added lrtest() method for "fitdistr" objects with intelligible
    model name (instead of the usual formula for formula-based models).


Changes in Version 1.1-4

  o ivreg() now uses the "Formula" package (>= 0.2-0) for processing
    of its model formulas. However, this only affects the internal
    computations, the user interface has remained unchanged.
    
  o Numerous spelling improvements in the documentation (thanks to
    the new aspell() functionality in base R).


Changes in Version 1.1-3

  o Added PSID7682 data set which contains the full Cornwell & Rupert
    (1988) panel data for the years 1976-1982. This should be used
    for estimation of the Hausman-Taylor model in Exercise 6 from
    Chapter 3 (instead of PSID1982 which does not provide panel data
    but only the cross-section for 1982). See the errata and the
    manual page for more details.

  o Fixed overall Wald test in summary() for "tobit" models
    with intercept only.
    

Changes in Version 1.1-2

  o New errata item in vignette("AER", package = "AER"): The comment
    regarding the output from the Johansen test (p. 169) is in error.
    The null hypothesis of no cointegration is not rejected at the
    10% level (only at 15% level).

  o Enhancements of the CigarettesSW examples from Stock & Watson.
  
  o Fixed overall Wald test in summary() for "tobit" models
    without intercept.
    
  o Improved "rgl" code in the SIC33 example.

  o The variable "gender" in the Parade2005 data set was
    wrong for observation 70. It is now "male" (not "female"). 
    

Changes in Version 1.1-1

  o A new improved version of the "plm" package is available
    from CRAN (version 1.1-1). This fixes a bug in the summary()
    of "plm" objects, see the vignette/errata for details.
    Furthermore, there is now a vcovHC() method for "panelmodel"
    objects: It gives equivalent results to pvcovHC() but
    is now the recommended user interface and hence used
    in the examples of some manual pages (see e.g. ?Fatalities).


Changes in Version 1.1-0

  o Some variable names in the PSID1976 (aka Mroz) data
    have been renamed: "earnings" is now called "wage"
    (to avoid confusion with other data sets), the previous
    variable "wage" is renamed as "repwage" (reported wage).
    Currently, "earnings" is kept; it will be removed in future
    releases.

  o Documentation of the Grunfeld data has been enhanced and
    updated. Much more details are available in a recent
    technical report: Kleiber and Zeileis (2008), "The
    Grunfeld Data at 50", available from http://epub.wu-wien.ac.at/.
    
  o Multinomial logit examples using Yves Croissant's "mlogit"
    package have been added for the TravelMode and BankWages
    data sets.

  o Vignette/errata updated.
    

Changes in Version 1.0-1

  o Small changes for R 2.8.0.
  

Changes in Version 1.0-0

  o official version accompanying the release of the
    book (contains all code from the book in demos
    and tests)

  o See the new
      vignette("AER", package = "AER")
    for an overview of the package and a list of errata.


Changes in Version 0.9-0

  o release of the version used for compiling the final
    version of the book for Springer


Changes in Version 0.2-0

  o first CRAN release of the AER package
