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As of Joinpoint version 4.5.0.0, Hudson's method is unavailable.
In version 4.5.0.0, Hudson’s Algorithm (used to estimate the exact best fitting location of joinpoints in continuous time) was temporarily disabled. It was determined that the algorithms for setting how close joinpoints can be to each other and to the ends of the series were not working properly when using the Hudson’s Algorithm. When examining this issue in detail, it was determined that there were some complicated interactions between these settings and the use of the Hudson’s Algorithm. We were not fully able to work out these issues in time for this release. Since version 4.5.0.0 had some important other updates, we decided to temporarily disable Hudson’s Algorithm. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
In previous versions, the placement of joinpoints was more constrained than it should have been given the settings. Also the description of the settings was incorrect for how they were used by Hudson’s Method. We have now separated the settings for Grid Search and Hudson’s Method to make this clearer.