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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.