Changes in version 1.1.1 (2025-11-02)                  

Minor improvements and fixes

  - Includes a random seed option to for claims covariate simulation.

                 Changes in version 1.1.0 (2024-01-27)                  

Inclusion of claim_covariates sub-module

  - Extends the package by including support for covariates and their
    impact on claim sizes.

  - Includes one new vignette, demonstrating the sub-module and its
    use-cases.

  - Includes five new data objects. The three existing datasets
    test_claims_object, test_claim_dataset and test_transaction_dataset
    now also have a version where outputs are impacted by the effect of
    covariates. A test_covariates_obj and test_covariates_dataset have
    been included which provide information regarding the specific
    factors and levels of covariates used in relation to each claim.

Minor improvements and fixes

  - Updates citation

                 Changes in version 1.0.5 (2023-09-03)                  

Minor improvements and fixes

  - Removes dependency (Suggests) on the poisson package

                 Changes in version 1.0.4 (2023-04-16)                  

Minor improvements and fixes

  - Removes dependency (Suggests) on the ChainLadder package

                        Changes in version 1.0.3                        

New features {#new-features-1.0.3}

  - Adds plot_transaction_dataset() function for plotting claim
    development from a payment-level dataset, in addition to the
    plot.claims method that works only with a claims object.

                 Changes in version 1.0.2 (2021-09-02)                  

Minor improvements and fixes

  - Updates citation

  - Fixes a bug in the default sampling function of claim_payment_no()

  - Fixes the treatment of params_split to allow for trivial params

                 Changes in version 1.0.1 (2021-06-26)                  

New features {#new-features-1.0.1}

  - Updates claim_output() to allow an option to adjust the treatment of
    out-of-bound transactions in tabulation. The previous version
    (1.0.0) automatically forced all out-of-bound transactions to be
    paid at the exact end of the maximum development period allowed.
    This is now set as the default behaviour, but the user can also set
    adjust = FALSE to see the proportion of payments projected to fall
    beyond the maximum development period (the "tail").

Minor improvements and fixes

  - Updates claim_output() to force adjust for higher aggregate_level.
    The issue with previous function was that it ignored payments beyond
    the max development period after aggregation. This is now fixed -
    either merged to the end DQ, or in a separate tail cell (if adjust =
    FALSE).

                 Changes in version 1.0.0 (2021-04-02)                  

New features {#new-features-1.0.0}

  - Both claim_frequency() and claim_size() now allow users to input a
    random generation function (by specifying a simfun and setting type
    = "r"), in addition to cdf inputs (type = "p") allowed by the
    predecessor version.
    
      - Also improves the simulation efficiency. When a cdf is given,
        the function will first search for the existence of the
        corresponding r-function and if it finds one, apply the
        r-function directly instead of inverse sampling from the cdf.

  - Relaxes assumptions for claim_notification() and claim_closure().
    
      - SynthETIC 0.1.0 assumes Weibull and only allows changes to mean
        and cv.
      - The new version relaxes this assumption and allows user to input
        any sampling distribution through rfun and paramfun.

  - Sets the benchmarks in claim_payment_no() function optional (and
    will only be read if the default simulation function is used).

  - claim_payment_no() is now also implemented through rfun and
    paramfun, instead of the original simulate_no_pmt_function (which
    works in the same way as rfun but without the functionality to
    change parameters).

  - claim_payment_size() is also implemented through rfun and paramfun,
    replacing the original simulate_amt_pmt_function.

  - New to_SynthETIC() function helps the conversion from externally
    simulated objects to SynthETIC format for easy integration with
    other simulation functions/modules.

Minor improvements and fixes

  - Fixed a few typos in function documentation.

  - claim_output() function is updated to correctly calculate triangles
    on a higher aggregate level (from square to parallelogram-shaped).

  - The package vignette has been updated to reflect all the changes
    listed above and show more examples where the quantities are
    simulated from distributions other than the default.

  - The GitHub repo address is added to the DESCRIPTION file.

  - The following don't affect the users of the package:
    
      - the test_data.R file under data-raw has been updated to reflect
        the changes listed under the heading "new features".
      - the DESCRIPTION file has been updated to include the new
        reference made in the vignette (e.g. actuar).