StructuralEquationModels v0.3.0

Diff since v0.2.4

Breaking changes

• SemSpecification objects are now dispatched on
• SemOptimizer is not part of the model anymore, but passed to sem_fit
• NLopt and ProximalAlgorithms backends are now supported via package extensions

Merged pull requests: - Bump julia-actions/setup-julia from 1 to 2 (#179) (@dependabot[bot]) - Release 0.2.4 (#200) (@Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst) - Cleanup Special Matrices code (#202) (@alyst) - Refactor SEM Specification (#203) (@alyst) - build(deps): bump julia-actions/cache from 1 to 2 (#204) (@dependabot[bot]) - build(deps): bump julia-actions/julia-format from 2 to 3 (#206) (@dependabot[bot]) - Cleanup Variables API (#207) (@alyst) - Update workflows in devel (#209) (@Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst) - dont allow fixed and labeled parameters (#210) (@Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst) - Release/v0.3.0 (#211) (@Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst) - Refactor objective/gradient/hessian evaluation (#214) (@alyst) - Devel (#218) (@Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst) - ParamsArray type (#219) (@alyst) - build(deps): bump codecov/codecov-action from 4 to 5 (#220) (@dependabot[bot]) - Release/v0.3.0 (#224) (@Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst) - Add data simulation function (#225) (@Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst) - Devel (#226) (@Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst) - Support optimization backends via package extensions (#228) (@alyst) - Enhance SemObserved (#230) (@alyst) - Switch to ProximalAlgorithms v0.7 (#234) (@alyst) - Rename SemImply to SemImplied (#235) (@alyst) - close [#158] (#240) (@Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst) - suppress uninformative warnings during package testing (#241) (@Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst) - turn simplification of symbolic terms by default off (#244) (@Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst) - Fix extensions (#246) (@Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst) - Devel (#247) (@Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst) - Documentation/0.3.0 (#248) (@Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst) - Devel (#249) (@Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst) - give macos some slack and format (#250) (@Maximilian-Stefan-Ernst)

Closed issues: - Index into type-heterogenous tuples in for loops (#20) - local testing only runs unit tests (#140) - Update installation instructions in docs (#155) - Multigroup SEM constructor (#157) - rename sem_summary (#158) - Is there a copy(::ParameterTable) method? (#170) - v0.2.3 (#177) - Variables/Parameters/Observations terminology & API Cleanup (#199) - v0.2.4 (#201) - New constructor for EnsembleParameterTable (#205) - Fixed and Labeled loadings don't show up in the degrees of freedom. (#208) - Add option to control the printed columns in sem_summary (#213) - start_simple ignores keyword arguments (#216) - Write a small wrapper function to sample from model parameters from normally distributed data (#223) - Rename swap_observed() to replace_observed() (#232) - consistent naming: params (#238)