Changes in version 1.3.1 (2021-10-02)                  

    o   updated Authors@R field.

    o   updated URLs.

    o   fixed errors flagged by R-devel in documentation.

    o   updated URLs in documentation.

                 Changes in version 1.3.0 (2021-04-25)                  

    o   updated documentation for chi2.plugin() and and chi2.empirical() to compute
	chi-squared divergence.

    o   new functions  Gstat() and chi2stat() to compute the statistic and the Pearson
	chi-squared statistic with (asymptotic) p-values.

    o   new functions Gstatindep() and chi2statindep() to compute the G statistic and
	Pearson chi-squared statistic to test independence.

                 Changes in version 1.2.1 (2014-11-14)                  

    o   change of maintainer email address.

                 Changes in version 1.2.0 (2013-07-16)                  

    o   new functions KL.plugin(), KL.empirical(), Kl.Dirichlet(), and 
	KL.shrink() for computing the Kullback-Leibler divergence.

    o   new functions chi2.plugin(), chi2.empirical(), chi2.Dirichlet(), and
	chi2.shrink() for computing the chi-squared statistic.

    o   new functions chi2indep.plugin(), chi2indep.empirical(), 
	chi2indep.Dirichlet(), and chi2indep.shrink() for computing the 
	chi-squared statistic of independence.

    o   new discretize2d() function for simple binning of a pair of random
	variables.

    o   in all shrinkage functions the target option has been removed (and
	the default uniform target is now always used).

                 Changes in version 1.1.9 (2013-06-22)                  

    o   new discretize() function for simple binning of a continuous random
	variable.

    o   now requires R >= 2.15.1.

                 Changes in version 1.1.8 (2013-03-25)                  

    o   License file removed.

    o   Dependencies updated.

    o   the functions freqs.shrink(), entropy.shrink(), mi.shrink(), 
	entropy(), and freqs() now allow to specify the shrinkage intensity.

                 Changes in version 1.1.7 (2012-01-20)                  

    o   NAMESPACE file added

                 Changes in version 1.1.6 (2011-03-21)                  

    o   small in documentation file fixed (for R 2.13.0 release)

    o   added in documentation that the default unit for the entropy
	is "nats" (natural units), for "bits" one needs to set unit="log2".

                 Changes in version 1.1.5 (2010-04-11)                  

    o   small bug in documentation file fixed (for R 2.11.0 release)

                 Changes in version 1.1.4 (2009-08-08)                  

    o   reference to publication (Hausser and Strimmer, 2009) added

                 Changes in version 1.1.3 (2009-01-09)                  

    o   small changes to update documentation

                 Changes in version 1.1.2 (2008-11-22)                  

    o   verbose messages for shrinkage entropy are now more informative and 
	in the same style as those from corpcor

    o   man pages slightly updated

                 Changes in version 1.1.1 (2008-10-26)                  

    o   bug fix: freqs.shrink() now also works for sample sizes 1 and 0

    o   freqs.shrink(), entropy.shrink() and mi.shrink() now return the
	estimated shrinkage intensity as attribute (lambda.freqs).

                 Changes in version 1.1.0 (2008-09-29)                  

    o   several new functions added for estimating mutual information:
	mi.plugin(), mi.empirical(), mi.Dirichlet() and mi.shrink().

                 Changes in version 1.0.0 (2008-09-02)                  

This package implements the following entropy estimators

    o   the James-Stein shrinkage estimator by Hausser and Strimmer,

    o   the maximum likelihood estimator,

    o   the Miller-Madow estimator,

    o   various Bayesian estimators (based on Dirichlet-multinomial model),

    o   and the Chen-Shao estimator.

It also provides an R interface to the

    o   Nemenman-Shafee-Bialek (NSB) estimator.

    o   This is the first public release (2 September 2008).