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  <dc:title>Causal Mediation Analysis in Multisite Trials</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package MultisiteMediation version 0.0.4</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: CausalInference (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=CausalInference)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Multisite causal mediation analysis using the methods proposed by Qin and Hong (2017) &lt;doi:10.3102/1076998617694879&gt;, Qin, Hong, Deutsch, and Bein (2019) &lt;doi:10.1111/rssa.12446&gt;, and Qin, Deutsch, and Hong (2021) &lt;doi:10.1002/pam.22268&gt;. It enables causal mediation analysis in multisite trials, in which individuals are assigned to a treatment or a control group at each site. It allows for estimation and hypothesis testing for not only the population average but also the between-site variance of direct and indirect effects transmitted through one single mediator or two concurrent (conditionally independent) mediators. This strategy conveniently relaxes the assumption of no treatment-by-mediator interaction while greatly simplifying the outcome model specification without invoking strong distributional assumptions. This package also provides a function that can further incorporate a sample weight and a nonresponse weight for multisite causal mediation analysis in the presence of complex sample and survey designs and non-random nonresponse, to enhance both the internal validity and external validity. The package also provides a weighting-based balance checking function for assessing the remaining overt bias.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: lme4, statmod, psych, MASS, ggplot2</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Xu Qin &lt;xuqin@pitt.edu&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Xu Qin, Guanglei Hong, Jonah Deutsch, and Edward Bein</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-2</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2021-09-05</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=MultisiteMediation</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.MultisiteMediation</dc:identifier>
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