Newspaper for the EpiLPS package

Version 0.1.5 ### (2021-10-31)

• Release of first version on Github. Version name: “EpiLPS is born”.

Version 1.0.1 ### (2021-12-08)

• Version name: “EpiLPS smoothing”
• The epilps() routine can now be fitted to count data containing NAs.
• Possibility to add dates to the epilps() routine.
• Version 1.0.1 first submitted to CRAN on (2021-12-17)

Version 1.0.2 ### (2021-12-29)

• Version name: “EpiLPS smoothing”
• Patched cubicBspline.cpp

Version 1.0.5 ### (2022-05-05)

• Version name: “Schrödinger’s cat jumps out of the box”
• Added correction factor on LPSMAP covariance matrix.
• episim() can now simulate from negative binomial distribution.

Version 1.0.6 ### (2022-08-08)

• Version name: “Welcome to the Metaverse”
• Added midwindow option to the perfcheck routine. It reports EpiEstim reproduction number (Rt) estimates at the middle of the sliding window.