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  <dc:title>Assessing Proximal, Distal, and Mediated Causal Excursion
Effects for Micro-Randomized Trials</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package MRTAnalysis version 0.4.1</dc:title>
  <dc:description>
	Provides methods to analyze micro-randomized trials (MRTs) with binary treatment options.  Supports four types of analyses: (1) proximal causal excursion effects, including weighted and centered least squares (WCLS) for continuous proximal outcomes by Boruvka et al. (2018) &lt;doi:10.1080/01621459.2017.1305274&gt; and the estimator for marginal excursion effect (EMEE) for binary proximal outcomes by Qian et al. (2021) &lt;doi:10.1093/biomet/asaa070&gt;; (2) distal causal excursion effects (DCEE) for continuous distal outcomes using a two-stage estimator by Qian (2025) &lt;doi:10.1093/biomtc/ujaf134&gt;; (3) mediated causal excursion effects (MCEE) for continuous distal outcomes, estimating natural direct and indirect excursion effects in the presence of time-varying mediators by Qian (2025) &lt;doi:10.48550/arXiv.2506.20027&gt;; and (4) standardized proximal effect size estimation for continuous proximal outcomes, generalizing the approach in Luers et al. (2019) &lt;doi:10.1007/s11121-017-0862-5&gt; to allow adjustment for baseline and time-varying covariates for improved efficiency.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.2)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: rootSolve, stats, geepack, sandwich, mgcv, randomForest,
ranger, boot</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0), SuperLearner, earth,
dplyr</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Tianchen Qian &lt;t.qian@uci.edu&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Tianchen Qian [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4282-7826&gt;),
  Shaolin Xiang [aut],
  Zhaoxi Cheng [aut],
  Xinyi Song [aut],
  John Dziak [aut],
  Audrey Boruvka [ctb]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-01-24</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=MRTAnalysis</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.MRTAnalysis</dc:identifier>
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