Package: pwSEM
Title: Piecewise Structural Equation Modelling
Version: 1.0.0
Authors@R: 
    person("Bill", "Shipley", , "Bill.Shipley@USherbrooke.ca", role = c("aut", "cre"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-7026-3880"))
Description: Conduct dsep tests (piecewise SEM) of a directed, or mixed, acyclic graph 
    without latent variables (but possibly with implicitly marginalized or
    conditioned latent variables that create dependent errors) based on
    linear, generalized linear, or additive modelswith or without a
    nesting structure for the data. Also included are functions to do desp tests
    step-by-step,exploratory path analysis, and Monte Carlo X2 probabilities.
    This package accompanies Shipley, B, (2026).Cause and Correlation in Biology:
     A User's Guide to Path Analysis, StructuralEquations and
     Causal Inference (3rd edition).  Cambridge University Press.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.3.1
Imports: copula, gamm4, ggm, igraph, mgcv, poolr, stats
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
Depends: R (>= 2.10)
LazyData: true
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2025-06-27 14:05:10 UTC; shij1401
Author: Bill Shipley [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7026-3880>)
Maintainer: Bill Shipley <Bill.Shipley@USherbrooke.ca>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2025-07-02 15:20:05 UTC
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