dsem: Fit Dynamic Structural Equation Models

Applies dynamic structural equation models to time-series data with generic and simplified specification for simultaneous and lagged effects. Methods are described in Thorson et al. (2024) "Dynamic structural equation models synthesize ecosystem dynamics constrained by ecological mechanisms."

Version: 1.5.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports: TMB, Matrix, sem, igraph, utils, RTMB (≥ 1.7.0), ggraph, ggplot2, grid, methods, stats, ggm
LinkingTo: TMB, RcppEigen
Suggests: knitr, AER, phylopath, rmarkdown, reshape, gridExtra, dynlm, MARSS, ggpubr, vars, testthat, DHARMa
Enhances: rstan, tmbstan
Published: 2025-02-13
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.dsem
Author: James Thorson ORCID iD [aut, cre], Maurice Goodman ORCID iD [ctb], Wouter van der Bijl ORCID iD [ctb] (template for d-separation test)
Maintainer: James Thorson <James.Thorson at noaa.gov>
BugReports: https://github.com/James-Thorson-NOAA/dsem/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://james-thorson-noaa.github.io/dsem/
NeedsCompilation: yes
Citation: dsem citation info
Materials: README NEWS
CRAN checks: dsem results

Documentation:

Reference manual: dsem.pdf
Vignettes: Dynamic factor analysis (source, R code)
Spatial diffusion (source, R code)
Demonstration of selected features (source, R code)

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Package source: dsem_1.5.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: dsem_1.5.0.zip, r-release: dsem_1.5.0.zip, r-oldrel: dsem_1.3.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-devel (arm64): dsem_1.5.0.tgz, r-release (arm64): dsem_1.5.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): dsem_1.4.0.tgz, r-devel (x86_64): dsem_1.5.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): dsem_1.5.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): dsem_1.3.0.tgz
Old sources: dsem archive

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