NEWS

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catfda 0.1.0 (2026-09-08)

• Initial CRAN release.
• GAM-based estimation of latent Gaussian processes from categorical functional data: binomial (logit), probit, and multinomial link functions.
• Parallel estimation via foreach/doRNG for all three model families.
• generate_categ_func_data() for simulating categorical functional data from a multivariate latent Gaussian process.
• Methods described in Champon et al. (2026) doi:10.1080/01621459.2026.2672226.