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  <dc:title>Moments and Distributions of Ratios of Quadratic Forms Using
Recursion</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package qfratio version 1.1.2</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: Distributions (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Distributions)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Evaluates moments of ratios (and products) of quadratic forms
    in normal variables, specifically using recursive algorithms developed by
    Bao and Kan (2013) &lt;doi:10.1016/j.jmva.2013.03.002&gt; and Hillier et al.
    (2014) &lt;doi:10.1017/S0266466613000364&gt;. Also provides distribution,
    quantile, and probability density functions of simple ratios of quadratic
    forms in normal variables with several algorithms. Originally developed as
    a supplement to Watanabe (2023) &lt;doi:10.1007/s00285-023-01930-8&gt; for
    evaluating average evolvability measures in evolutionary quantitative
    genetics, but can be used for a broader class of statistics. Generating 
    functions for these moments are also closely related to the top-order zonal
    and invariant polynomials of matrix arguments.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Imports: Rcpp, MASS, stats</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppEigen</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: mvtnorm, CompQuadForm, graphics, testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0), knitr,
rmarkdown</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Junya Watanabe &lt;Junya.Watanabe@vetmeduni.ac.at&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Junya Watanabe [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9810-5286&gt;),
  Patrick Alken [cph] (Author of bundled C codes from GSL),
  Brian Gough [cph] (Author of bundled C codes from GSL),
  Pavel Holoborodko [cph] (Author of bundled C codes from GSL),
  Gerard Jungman [cph] (Author of bundled C codes from GSL),
  Reid Priedhorsky [cph] (Author of bundled C codes from GSL),
  Free Software Foundation, Inc. [cph] (Copyright holder of some bundled
    scripts)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-07-22</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=qfratio</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.qfratio</dc:identifier>
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