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  <dc:title>Time Delay Estimation for Stochastic Time Series of
Gravitationally Lensed Quasars</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package timedelay version 1.0.11</dc:title>
  <dc:description>We provide a toolbox to estimate the time delay between the brightness time series of gravitationally lensed quasar images via Bayesian and profile likelihood approaches. The model is based on a state-space representation for  irregularly observed time series data generated from a latent continuous-time Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Our Bayesian method adopts scientifically motivated hyper-prior distributions and a Metropolis-Hastings within Gibbs sampler, producing posterior samples of the model parameters that include the time delay. A profile likelihood of the time delay is a simple approximation to the marginal posterior distribution of the time delay. Both Bayesian and profile likelihood approaches complement each other, producing almost identical results; the Bayesian way is more principled but the profile likelihood is easier to implement. A new functionality is added in version 1.0.9 for estimating the time delay between doubly-lensed light curves observed in two bands. See also Tak et al. (2017) &lt;doi:10.1214/17-AOAS1027&gt;, Tak et al. (2018) &lt;doi:10.1080/10618600.2017.1415911&gt;, Hu and Tak (2020) &lt;arXiv:2005.08049&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: MASS (&gt;= 7.3-51.3), mvtnorm(&gt;= 1.0-11)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Hyungsuk Tak &lt;hyungsuk.tak@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Hyungsuk Tak, Kaisey Mandel, David A. van Dyk, Vinay L. Kashyap, Xiao-Li Meng, Aneta Siemiginowska, and Zhirui Hu</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-2</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2020-05-19</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=timedelay</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.timedelay</dc:identifier>
</oai_dc:dc>
