NEWS

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didec 1.1.0 (2026-02-02)

Main changes

• Add a new method for estimating the directed dependence coefficient (didec, mfoci, VarClustPartition)
• Add the data standardization procedure for predictor variables (didec, mfoci, VarClustPartition)
• Add a new method for selecting features (mfoci)
• Add new methods for permuting the response variables (mfoci, VarClustPartition)

Minor changes

• Change the return of the function into a list (mfoci)
• Add automatic removing missing values (NA) (didec, mfoci, VarClustPartition)
• Update the bioclimatic dataset with 19 variables
• Add warning when variable is constant (didec, mfoci, VarClustPartition)
• Use function cor.fk in R package pcaPP to calculate bivariate kendall tau (VarClustPartition)
• Change terms of the return of the function (mfoci)
• Fix typos in the manual