pomp development version 3.1.1.1 has just been released on the package github site. This release introduces the profile_design function, which is intended to replace profileDesign. The so-called profile design consists of a series of slices through a parameter space perpendicular to one or more coordinate axes. The old behavior was to generate a single set of points in one of these slices (randomly according to a uniform distribution when type="runif" and according to a sub-random (Sobol’) sequence when type="sobol") and then copy these points across all slices. Thus, in a projection perpendicular to the slices, all nprof generated points would lie atop one another. The new behavior is to generate the points in each slice independently. Thus, a projection perpendicular to the slices will display n*nprof points, where n is the number of slices.

For stylistic reasons, the other design functions, sliceDesign, runifDesign, and sobolDesign have been replaced by slice_design, runif_design, and sobol_design, respectively.

The older functions remain in place, but are deprecated and will be removed in a future release.


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This software has been made possible by support from the U.S. National Science Foundation (Grants #EF-0545276, #EF-0430120), by the “Inference for Mechanistic Models” Working Group supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (a Center funded by N.S.F. (Grant #DEB-0553768), the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the State of California), and by the RAPIDD program of the Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security and the Fogarty International Center, U.S. National Institutes of Health.