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  <dc:title>Likelihood-Free Parameter Estimation using Neural Networks</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package NeuralEstimators version 0.2.1</dc:title>
  <dc:description>An 'R' interface to the 'Julia' package 'NeuralEstimators.jl'. The package facilitates the user-friendly development of neural Bayes estimators, which are neural networks that map data to a point summary of the posterior distribution (Sainsbury-Dale et al., 2024, &lt;doi:10.1080/00031305.2023.2249522&gt;). These estimators are likelihood-free and amortised, in the sense that, once the neural networks are trained on simulated data, inference from observed data can be made in a fraction of the time required by conventional approaches. The package also supports amortised Bayesian or frequentist inference using neural networks that approximate the posterior or likelihood-to-evidence ratio (Zammit-Mangion et al., 2025, Sec. 3.2, 5.2, &lt;doi:10.48550/arXiv.2404.12484&gt;). The package accommodates any model for which simulation is feasible by allowing users to define models implicitly through simulated data.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Imports: JuliaConnectoR, magrittr</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: dplyr, ggplot2, ggplotify, ggpubr, gridExtra, knitr,
rmarkdown, markdown, R.rsp, testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Matthew Sainsbury-Dale &lt;msainsburydale@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Matthew Sainsbury-Dale [aut, cre]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-04-28</dc:date>
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  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=NeuralEstimators</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.NeuralEstimators</dc:identifier>
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