Changes in version 2.7.4 o the observed Fisher information matrix is now returned as attribute ('FisherI') of the returned object Changes in version 2.7.3 o New baseline hazard family: inverse Weibull (Fréchet) Changes in version 2.7 o optimization is now based on the optimx package o the default optimizer is now nlminb (from the stats package) o fixed issue in the likelihood with lognormal frailties o new function coeff() Changes in version 2.6.0 o new baseline distribution: log-skew normal Changes in version 2.5.10 (2015-09-03) o added Kendall's tau for the lognormal frailty distrubution Changes in version 2.5 o new frailty distrubution available: lognormal Changes in version 2.01 o Added function anova.parfm() to compare models Changes in version 1.01 o Added stratification Changes in version 0.66-2 o Added example datasets