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  <dc:title>Multivariate Age-Period-Cohort (MAPC) Modeling for Health Data</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package MAPCtools version 0.1.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Bayesian multivariate age-period-cohort (MAPC) models for analyzing health data, with support for model fitting, visualization, stratification, and model comparison. Inference focuses on identifiable cross-strata differences, as described by Riebler and Held (2010) &lt;doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxp037&gt;. Methods for handling complex survey data via the 'survey' package are included, as described in Mercer et al. (2014) &lt;doi:10.1016/j.spasta.2013.12.001&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: dplyr, tidyselect, fastDummies, stringr, rlang, tidyr,
ggplot2, viridis, scales, purrr, grid, gridExtra, ggpubr,
tibble, survey</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, INLA</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Lars Vatten &lt;lavatt99@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Lars Vatten [aut, cre]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=MAPCtools/LICENSE)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2025-06-25</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=MAPCtools</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.MAPCtools</dc:identifier>
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