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  <dc:title>Algebra over Probability Distributions</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package algebraic.dist version 1.0.0</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: Distributions (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Distributions)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Provides an algebra over probability distributions enabling
    composition, sampling, and automatic simplification to closed forms.
    Supports normal, exponential, gamma, Weibull, chi-squared, uniform,
    beta, log-normal, Poisson, multivariate normal, empirical, and mixture
    distributions with algebraic operators (addition, subtraction,
    multiplication, division, power, exp, log, min, max) that automatically
    simplify when mathematical identities apply. Includes closed-form MVN
    conditioning (Schur complement), affine transformations, mixture
    marginals/conditionals (Bayes rule), and limiting distribution builders
    (CLT, LLN, delta method). Uses S3 classes for distributions and R6
    for support objects.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: stats, mvtnorm, R6</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Alexander Towell &lt;lex@metafunctor.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Alexander Towell [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6443-9897&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-03-18</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=algebraic.dist</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.algebraic.dist</dc:identifier>
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