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  <dc:title>Bayesian Q Methodology: Probabilistic Factor Analysis</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package bayesqm version 0.1.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>A Bayesian factor-analytic framework for Q methodology. Fits a
    low-rank factor model to Q-sort data with a Student-t likelihood and a
    hierarchical normal prior on loadings, samples the posterior with Stan,
    resolves rotational ambiguity via the MatchAlign post-processing of
    Poworoznek et al. (2025) &lt;doi:10.1214/25-BA1544&gt;, and returns posterior
    summaries including credible intervals for loadings and factor scores,
    probabilistic dominant-factor membership, distinguishing and consensus
    statements, and PSIS-LOO-based factor enumeration following Vehtari et
    al. (2017) &lt;doi:10.1007/s11222-016-9696-4&gt; with the Sivula et al. (2025)
    &lt;doi:10.1214/25-BA1569&gt; parsimony rule.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.1.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: stats, utils, tools, parallel, rstantools (&gt;= 2.3.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: cmdstanr (&gt;= 0.8.0), rstan (&gt;= 2.32.0), loo (&gt;= 2.7.0),
GPArotation (&gt;= 2024.3-1), lpSolve, readxl (&gt;= 1.4.0), jsonlite
(&gt;= 1.8.0), posterior (&gt;= 1.5.0), ggplot2 (&gt;= 3.4.0), ggdist
(&gt;= 3.3.0), ggridges (&gt;= 0.5.0), scales (&gt;= 1.2.0), knitr (&gt;=
1.40), rmarkdown (&gt;= 2.20), testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0), vdiffr (&gt;=
1.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Raymond Dacosta Azadda &lt;rdazadda@alaska.edu&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Raymond Dacosta Azadda [aut, cre],
  AK-ACE Team [aut],
  Karsten Hueffer [aut],
  Taa'aii Peter [aut],
  Stacy Rasmus [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-06-17</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=bayesqm</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.bayesqm</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en-US</dc:language>
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