Changes in version 0.4-3 (2019-04-23) o Added the joint covariance matrix, C, of the estimated fixed effects and predicted random effects to the output. See Henderson (1975). o Paper reference added to manuals and to CITATION file. Changes in version 0.4-0 (2017-08-14) o New arguments added to the RealVAMS function -- independent.responses defaults to FALSE. If TRUE, this option will model the responses independently by fixing the covariances in G at 0 as well as the covariances in the last row/column of R. The resulting estimates are the same as those that would be obtained by modelling the test scores in package GPvam (with REML=FALSE) and modelling the binary respones in SAS GLIMMIX (RealVAMS has been validated against these programs). -- cpp.benchmark defaults to FALSE. If TRUE, this option will perform the calculations shown in equation (16) of Karl, Yang, Lohr (2013) using both R and the embedded C++ code to demonstrate the time savings of using C++. A summary table is printed at the end. o The functions in the code of the file vp_cp (the estimation routine) have been commented to explain their purpose and to reference which equations from Karl, Yang, Lohr (2013) or Wolfinger and O'Connell (1993) they represent Changes in version 0.3-3 (2017-03-14) o Add generic summary, plot, and print functions. o Added detail to documentation for the RealVAMS function o Reformatted user manual documentation for simulated data o Renamed some of the elements of the RealVAMS class Changes in version 0.3-2 (2015-07-21) o Minor updates to package structure to match new CRAN requirements. Changes in version 0.3-1 (2014-11-01) o First public release.