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Update to newer, faster dem* packages #2

Open tmelliott opened 1 year ago

johnrbryant commented 1 year ago

The new package for doing estimates and forecasts of rates is here: https://github.com/bayesiandemography/bage

As discussed, it would be awesome to hook this up to iNZight at some stage, if that's feasible, meets iNZight objectives etc.

'bage' is still in its early stages, meaning that the interface is still evolving, and it isn't ready for serious use yet. But for certain things it already gives nice looking results very fast, thanks to the magic of TMB. The interface is loosely based on https://www.tidymodels.org. It wasn't possible to adopt their format exactly, because tidy models seems aimed at ML, and is a bit awkward for Bayesian models with lots of options and levels.