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  <dc:title>Microbiome Regression-Based Kernel Association Tests</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package MiRKAT version 1.2.3</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Test for overall association between microbiome composition data 
  and phenotypes via phylogenetic kernels. The phenotype can be univariate 
  continuous or binary (Zhao et al. (2015) &lt;doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.04.003&gt;), 
  survival outcomes (Plantinga et al. (2017) &lt;doi:10.1186/s40168-017-0239-9&gt;), 
  multivariate (Zhan et al. (2017) &lt;doi:10.1002/gepi.22030&gt;) and 
  structured phenotypes (Zhan et al. (2017) &lt;doi:10.1111/biom.12684&gt;). 
  The package can also use robust regression (unpublished work) and 
  integrated quantile regression (Wang et al. (2021) &lt;doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btab668&gt;). 
  In each case, the microbiome community effect is modeled nonparametrically 
  through a kernel function, which can incorporate phylogenetic tree information. </dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.1.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: MASS, CompQuadForm, quantreg, GUniFrac, PearsonDS, lme4,
Matrix, permute, mixtools, survival, stats</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, vegan, rmarkdown, magrittr, kableExtra</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Anna Plantinga &lt;amp9@williams.edu&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Anna Plantinga [aut, cre],
  Nehemiah Wilson [aut, ctb],
  Haotian Zheng [aut, ctb],
  Tianying Wang [aut, ctb],
  Xiang Zhan [aut, ctb],
  Michael Wu [aut],
  Ni Zhao [aut, ctb],
  Jun Chen [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2023-02-17</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=MiRKAT</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.MiRKAT</dc:identifier>
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