NEWS

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diversityForest 0.6.0 (2025-05-05)

• The algorithm for calculating the class-focused (formerly 'multi-class') VIM and the discriminatory VIM has been substantially revised.

diversityForest 0.5.0 (2024-09-16)

• Multi forests (diversity forest variant tailored for multi-class outcomes) added together with the multi-class and the discriminatory VIM
• Plot functions for examining the shapes of the influences of the variables with the largest multi-class VIM values

diversityForest 0.4.0 (2023-03-08)

• Improved documentation
• Add categprob to plotPair()
• Switch to C++14 standard

diversityForest 0.3.0 (2021-04-01)

• Interaction forests added for categorical, metric, and survival outcomes
• Plot functions for visualizing interaction effects of covariate pairs through their (estimated) simultaneous influence on the outcome

diversityForest 0.2.0 (2020-01-29)

• Diversity forests using univariable, binary splitting for categorical, metric, and survival outcomes (previously only classification was possible)
• Bug fixes