2026-04-17 Luca Sauer <sauer@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>  and Marieke Stolte <marieke.stolte@ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de>

	Handling of missing values
	
	* All methods now check for NAs and omit missing values with a warning

2026-04-16 Marieke Stolte <marieke.stolte@ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de>
	
	Adapted defaults based on simulation results 
	
	* FStest and RItest: Changed default for s.psi to 3
	* GGRL_cat: Changed default for tuning to FALSE
	* gTests and ZC: Changed default to kappa = 1
	* SC: Changed default to graph.fun = MST5 and typ = "SA"

2026-04-15 Marieke Stolte <marieke.stolte@ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de>

	Distance calculation for FR_cat, CF_cat, CCS_cat, ZC_cat, gTests_cat 
	
	* Argument dist.fun now requires function that calculates whole distance matrix from a dataset of unique values instead of calculating the distance for single observation vectors
	* This allows the use of more flexible distance function for datasets including variables of different scales (e.g. ordinal and nominal)

2026-04-14 Luca Sauer <sauer@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> 
	
	Handling of ties in MMCM() and Petrie()
	
	* Detects ties and throws warning in case that ties were detected
	* New argument shuffle allows to randomly permute data to prevent inflated cross-counts in case of ties 

2026-04-08 Luca Sauer <sauer@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> 
	
	Fixes for numerical stability and speed

2026-02-26 Marieke Stolte <stolte@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> 

	New default parameters based on new empirical results comparing their performance
	
	* NKT and GGRL: Changed defaults for tune argument from TRUE to FALSE
	* CCS, CF, FR, ZC, gTests, CCS_cat, CF_cat, FR_cat, ZC_cat, gTests_cat: Changed 
	  defaults for the graph used to the 5-MST and for the categorical versions set a 
	  default for agg.type to the union ("u")
	* SH: Changed default K of the K-NN graph from K = 1 to K = 5
	* BF: Changed default kernel function from "phiLog" to "phiFracA"

2026-02-26 Marieke Stolte <stolte@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> 
	
	Minor corrections on help pages 

2026-01-06 Marieke Stolte <stolte@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> 
	
	Fixed bug with dataset names always displayed as X1 and X2
	
	* Added dname argument in gTest wrapper functions
	* Supply correct dataset names in CCS, CF, FR, ZC, gTests, CCS_cat, CF_cat, 
	  FR_cat, ZC_cat, gTests_cat
	
2026-01-06 Marieke Stolte <stolte@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> 
	
	Addition of minor details on help pages

2025-05-21 Marieke Stolte <stolte@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> 

  Addition / Updates vignettes
  
  * GettingStarted vignette describes workflow of using package for finding a 
    method using findSimilarityMethod() and applying it using DataSimilarity()
  * Renamed overall vignette to "Details" for clarity
  * Details vignette is updated accordingly
  * Switched package for neural nets used in C2ST() due to reproducibility issues
    of the RSNNS package when using Windows compared to Linux

2025-05-21 Marieke Stolte <stolte@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> 

  Introduction of DataSimilarity and findSimilarityMethod functions
  
  * Added new functions
  * Renamed "method" argument in NKT() to "version"
  * Renamed "method" argmuent in C2ST() to "classifier"
  * Renamed "method" argmuent in Jeffreys() to "fitting.method"
  
2025-05-21 Marieke Stolte <stolte@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> and Luca Sauer
  
  Changed default behavior for seed argument
  
  * Default is set to seed = NULL
  * Seed is only set by each function if !is.null(seed)
  
2025-04-15 Marieke Stolte <stolte@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
  
  Improved numeric stability of CMDistance function
  
  * Rewrote expression to circumvent direct matrix inversion
  
2025-04-15 Marieke Stolte <stolte@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
  
  Fixed typos / inaccuracies in the package documentation
  