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  <dc:title>Bayesian Spatial Analysis</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package geostan version 0.8.2</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: Spatial (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Spatial)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>For spatial data analysis; provides exploratory spatial analysis tools, spatial regression, spatial econometric, and disease mapping models, model diagnostics, and special methods for inference with small area survey data (e.g., the America Community Survey (ACS)) and censored population health monitoring data. Models are pre-specified using the Stan programming language, a platform for Bayesian inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). References: Carpenter et al. (2017) &lt;doi:10.18637/jss.v076.i01&gt;; Donegan (2021) &lt;doi:10.31219/osf.io/3ey65&gt;; Donegan (2022) &lt;doi:10.21105/joss.04716&gt;; Donegan, Chun and Hughes (2020) &lt;doi:10.1016/j.spasta.2020.100450&gt;; Donegan, Chun and Griffith (2021) &lt;doi:10.3390/ijerph18136856&gt;; Morris et al. (2019) &lt;doi:10.1016/j.sste.2019.100301&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.1.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: spdep (&gt;= 1.0), sf (&gt;= 1.0-10), ggplot2 (&gt;= 3.0.0), methods,
graphics, stats, spData, MASS, truncnorm, signs, gridExtra,
utils, Matrix (&gt;= 1.3), Rcpp (&gt;= 0.12.0), RcppParallel (&gt;=
5.0.1), rstan (&gt;= 2.26.0), rstantools (&gt;= 2.1.1)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>LinkingTo: BH (&gt;= 1.66.0), Rcpp (&gt;= 0.12.0), RcppEigen (&gt;= 0.3.3.3.0),
RcppParallel (&gt;= 5.0.1), rstan (&gt;= 2.26.0), StanHeaders (&gt;=
2.26.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat, knitr, rmarkdown, bayesplot</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Connor Donegan &lt;connor.donegan@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Connor Donegan [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9698-5443&gt;),
  Mitzi Morris [ctb],
  Amy Tims [ctb]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2025-07-16</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=geostan</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.geostan</dc:identifier>
</oai_dc:dc>
