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  <dc:title>Testing Equality of Natural Mediation Effects and Their
Randomized Interventional Analogues</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package ria.test version 0.2.1</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Implements the empirical test introduced by Yu, Ge, and Elwert
    (2026) for detecting when randomized interventional analogues should not be
    interpreted as natural mediation effects. The package estimates natural
    effects, their randomized interventional analogues, and TE - TE^R, the
    difference between the total effect and its randomized interventional
    analogue. Rejecting TE - TE^R = 0 falsifies the composite null that the natural
    indirect and direct effects equal their randomized interventional analogues.
    The procedure remains valid in settings where the natural effects themselves
    are not identified, and |TE - TE^R| provides a lower bound on the total
    divergence between the natural and randomized interventional decompositions.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.2.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: checkmate, Matrix, origami, torch, Rsymphony, purrr, cli, S7,
data.table, coro, generics, mlr3superlearner, progressr, ife
(&gt;= 0.2.1)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Ang Yu &lt;ang_yu@outlook.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Ang Yu [aut, cre, cph] (Author and copyright holder of
    ria.test-specific extensions),
  Nicholas Williams [aut, cph] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1378-4831&gt;, Author and copyright
    holder of code derived from crumble),
  Richard Liu [ctb] (Contributor to code derived from crumble),
  Iván Díaz [aut, cph] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9056-2047&gt;,
    Author and copyright holder of code derived from crumble)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-07-21</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ria.test</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.ria.test</dc:identifier>
</oai_dc:dc>
