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  <dc:title>Mediation Analysis with Missing Data and Non-Normal Data</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package bmemLavaan version 0.7</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: CausalInference (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=CausalInference)</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: MissingData (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=MissingData)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Methods for mediation analysis with missing data and non-normal data are implemented. For missing data, four methods are available: Listwise deletion, Pairwise deletion, Multiple imputation, and Two Stage Maximum Likelihood algorithm. For MI and TS-ML, auxiliary variables can be included to handle missing data. For handling non-normal data, bootstrap and two-stage robust methods can be used. Technical details of the methods can be found in Zhang and Wang (2013, &lt;doi:10.1007/s11336-012-9301-5&gt;), Zhang (2014, &lt;doi:10.3758/s13428-013-0424-0&gt;), and Yuan and Zhang (2012, &lt;doi:10.1007/s11336-012-9282-4&gt;).</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5.0), Amelia, MASS, snowfall, rsem</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: lavaan, sem</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: R.rsp</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Zhiyong Zhang &lt;johnnyzhz@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Shuigen Ming [aut],
  Hong Zhang [aut],
  Zhiyong Zhang [aut, cre],
  Lijuan Wang [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-2</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-02-03</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=bmemLavaan</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.bmemLavaan</dc:identifier>
</oai_dc:dc>
