Changes in version 1.6.0 (2026-03-28)                  

  - The package now supports modeling a single longitudinal outcome with
    heterogeneous within-subject variability via functionality adapted
    from the 'JMH' package.
  - Add DynPredAccjmcs() to calculate all available evaluation metrics
    for fitted joint models.
  - Remove AUCjmcs(), MAEQjmcs(), PEjmcs(), summary.AUCjmcs(),
    summary.MAEQjmcs(), and summary.PEjmcs().

                 Changes in version 1.5.3 (2025-11-08)                  

  - Fix small bug in survfitmvjmcs().

                 Changes in version 1.5.2 (2025-10-18)                  

  - Fix small bug in mvjmcs() to support ties in obtaining the estimator
    of the baseline hazards.

                 Changes in version 1.5.1 (2025-07-23)                  

  - Fix small bugs and add the estimates and 95% confidence interval for
    the error variances of multivariate joint modeling.

                 Changes in version 1.5.0 (2025-06-22)                  

  - Add a new function mvjmcs() to support multivariate joint modeling.

                 Changes in version 1.4.2 (2024-02-29)                  

  - Fix small bugs within C functions.

                 Changes in version 1.4.1 (2024-01-09)                  

  - Fix small bugs within jmcs().

                 Changes in version 1.4.0 (2023-10-10)                  

  - Add the function AUCjmcs() area under the ROC curve (AUC) to assess
    the prediction performance of joint models.

                        Changes in version 1.3.0                        

  - Correct the implementation of dynamic prediction in surviftjmcs().
  - Remove plot.surviftjmcs() due to theoretical problem.
  - Provide two metrics of prediction accuracy of joint model by adding
    PEjmcs() and MAEQjmcs().

                 Changes in version 1.2.0 (2022-08-06)                  

  - Correct the implementation of dynamic prediction in surviftjmcs()
    for the competing risk and add summary() for providing parameter
    estimates and SE for both sub-models.

                 Changes in version 1.1.3 (2022-06-01)                  

  - Correct syntax error on jmcs().

                 Changes in version 1.1.2 (2022-02-16)                  

  - Correct testthat error.

                 Changes in version 1.1.1 (2022-02-14)                  

  - Correct testthat error.

                 Changes in version 1.1.0 (2022-02-08)                  

  - Provide support for handling categorical variables in both
    sub-models.

  - Provide the anova() function to compare two fitted joint models.

  - Add the simulate argument in the survfitjmcs() function to obtain
    the conditional probabilities using the Gauss-Hermite quadrature
    rule for numerical integration.

  - Adjust the label position of y axis for clarity purposes when
    include.y = TRUE in the plot.survfitjmcs() function.

                 Changes in version 1.0.1 (2022-01-11)                  

  - Removed unused variables in C functions.

                 Changes in version 1.0.0 (2022-01-06)                  

  - First version of software with subsequent minor patches. No NEWS
    file was maintained.