v2.0.0 — Major Update

v2.0.0 — Major Update

This is a major update to Numerics with 274 files changed since v1.0.0. Highlights include new distributions, improved MCMC inference, enhanced numerical methods, and comprehensive documentation.

New Distributions

• Dirichlet distribution (multivariate)
• Multinomial distribution (multivariate)
• Multivariate Student-t distribution
• Student-t copula
• Von Mises distribution for circular data
• Enhanced Competing Risks distribution

Bayesian Inference & MCMC

• Added No-U-Turn sampler (NUTS) with adaptive tuning parameters
• Improved Gelman-Rubin convergence diagnostics
• Enhanced MCMC sampler reliability and convergence

Numerical Methods

• Bessel functions of the first and second kind
• Linear algebra enhancements
• Root-finding improvements
• ODE solver improvements
• Improved adaptive integration

Functions

• Link function framework (Identity, Logit, Log, Probit, Complementary Log-Log)

Data & Statistics

• Bootstrap analysis overhaul with new BootstrapResults class
• Time series download improvements
• Hypothesis test enhancements
• Enhanced parameter estimation methods
• Autocorrelation and convergence diagnostics improvements

Optimization

• Comprehensive correctness improvements across all optimizers

Machine Learning

• Generalized Linear Model enhanced with full link function support
• Code quality improvements

Infrastructure & Documentation

• Added .NET 10.0 target framework (now targets net8.0, net9.0, net10.0, net481)
• Zero runtime dependencies maintained
• 1,700+ unit tests validated against published references
• JOSS paper and metadata (CITATION.cff, codemeta.json)
• CONTRIBUTING.md and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• 25+ documentation files covering all library capabilities
• NuGet publishing workflow for nuget.org