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  <dc:title>Nonparametric Tests for Random Effects in Linear and Nonlinear
Mixed-Effects Models</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package TestREnlme version 0.1.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Provides nonparametric permutation tests for testing all or
    any subset of random effects in linear and nonlinear mixed-effects
    models, without requiring normality or other distributional
    assumptions on random effects or errors. Three distribution-free
    variance-component estimators are implemented: Variance Least
    Squares ('VLS'), Method of Moments ('MM'), and Method of Moments
    with First-Order Approximation ('MMF'). A permutation procedure is
    used to obtain finite-sample p-values. Plotting functions support
    data exploration, model evaluation, and communication of results.
    Methods are described in Uwimpuhwe, Drikvandi, and Blozis (2026)
    &lt;doi:10.1002/sim.70605&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.1.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: nlme (&gt;= 3.1-150), Matrix (&gt;= 1.3-0), MASS (&gt;= 7.3-54), mgsub
(&gt;= 1.7.3), matrixcalc (&gt;= 1.0-5), nls.multstart (&gt;= 2.0.0),
ggplot2 (&gt;= 3.3.5), expm (&gt;= 0.999-6), withr (&gt;= 3.0.2), stats,
utils, rlang</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, ggpubr (&gt;= 0.4.0), testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0),
reshape2 (&gt;= 1.4.4)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Germaine Uwimpuhwe &lt;germaine.uwimpuhwe@durham.ac.uk&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Germaine Uwimpuhwe [aut, cre],
  Reza Drikvandi [aut],
  Shelley A. Blozis [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-07-03</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=TestREnlme</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.TestREnlme</dc:identifier>
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