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  <dc:title>Nonparametric Probabilistic-Statistical Variate Analysis with
Automated Markov-Chain Monte Carlo</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package prova version 1.0.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Calculate posterior joint and conditional probabilities, probability distributions of population frequencies, and information-theoretic measures, by means of Bayesian nonparametric methods. Data imputation is automatic and done in a principled way. Markov-chain Monte Carlo calculations are automatically handled and do not require user supervision. Applications range from statistical estimation and probabilistic hypothesis testing to evidence-based inference and decision making, in a wide range of disciplines from astrophysics to medicine. For more details and examples see for instance Porta Mana et al. (2026) &lt;doi:10.31219/osf.io/8nr56&gt;, Dunson &amp; Bhattacharya (2011) &lt;doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199694587.003.0005&gt;, Lindley &amp; Novick (1981) &lt;doi:10.1214/aos/1176345331&gt;, Bernardo &amp; Smith (2000) &lt;doi:10.1002/9780470316870&gt;, Müller et al. (2015) &lt;doi:10.1007/978-3-319-18968-0&gt;. Requires the packages 'Nimble', 'parallel', 'extraDistr'.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.5.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: extraDistr, parallel</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: nimble (&gt;= 1.4.2), knitr, rmarkdown</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>PierGianLuca Porta Mana &lt;pgl@portamana.org&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>PierGianLuca Porta Mana [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6070-0784&gt;),
  Aurora Grefsrud [ctb] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9063-4131&gt;),
  Håkon Mydland [ctb] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9558-8894&gt;),
  Maksim Ohvrill [ctb],
  Simen Hesthamar Hauge [ctb] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6158-2846&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>AGPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-07-16</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=prova</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.prova</dc:identifier>
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