NEWS

FlexRL 1.0.1

Functions and arguments renamed, data configuration functions added.
New survival_model(): the change over time of a structured PIV can be modelled with an exponential (default), Weibull, Gompertz, piecewise-constant or user-defined survival function, passed to StEM() through the survival_model argument. alpha chains are named after the model parameters. SurvivalUnstable() and loglikSurvival() are obsolete. cond_hazard_params are now given on the parameter scale of the model (log-hazards for the exponential model).
New RL_diagnostics(): provides record linkage diagnostics over linkage decision rules (thresholds from 0.50 to 0.99); internally computes FDP_measures and discrepancy_measures useful for downstream inference; print(x, threshold = ) and plot(x, type = ) display the diagnostics,
New link_with_<pkg>() record linkage wrappers created for several packages: multilink, fastLink, BRL, reclin2, diyar, fedmatch, FlexRL. They return a named list (idxA, idxB, LinkScore) that can be passed directly to RL_diagnostics().
Useless dependencies dropped; R >= 4.1.0.
Bugs corrected, warnings added.