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  <dc:title>Dynamic Structural Equation Models</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package dsem version 3.0.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Applies dynamic structural equation models to time-series data
	with generic and simplified specification for simultaneous and lagged
	effects. Methods are described in Thorson et al. (2024)
	"Dynamic structural equation models synthesize ecosystem dynamics 
	constrained by ecological mechanisms."  </dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.0.0),</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: TMB (&gt;= 1.9.18), Matrix, igraph, utils, RTMB (&gt;= 1.7.0),
ggraph, ggplot2, grid, methods, stats, checkmate</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>LinkingTo: TMB (&gt;= 1.9.18), RcppEigen</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, AER, phylopath, rmarkdown, reshape, gridExtra, dynlm,
MARSS, ggpubr, vars, testthat, DHARMa</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Enhances: rstan, tmbstan</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>James Thorson &lt;James.Thorson@noaa.gov&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>James Thorson [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7415-1010&gt;),
  Maurice Goodman [ctb] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6874-2313&gt;),
  Wouter van der Bijl [ctb] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7366-1868&gt;, template for d-separation
    test),
  Giovanni M. Marchetti [ctr] (creator of ggm, from which functions are
    copied to avoid dependency on package graph not on CRAN)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-06-16</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=dsem</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.dsem</dc:identifier>
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