Changes in version 1.7 (2018-01-20): Introduction: o Additional functions are added sporadically. o This news file reports changes that have been made as the package has been developed. Changes: o Bayesian inference using stan (rstan package) o Two bayesian inference methods to support both continuous and dichotomous phenotypes o Additional genotype-phenotype association metrics added o Posterior predictive checks implemented o Procedure for data reduction (runDiagnostics) added o Tutorial updated o Simple procedure for phylogenetic bias estimation implemented o Retrospective power analysis module To do: o Add practical examples where genphen has been used. o Implement modules for data augmentation o Update todo after data augmentation