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  <dc:title>Bayesian Synthetic Control Models</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package bscm version 1.0.1</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Implements the synthetic control method of Abadie, Diamond, and 
    Hainmueller (2010) &lt;doi:10.1198/jasa.2009.ap08746&gt; within a Bayesian 
    framework, enabling straightforward uncertainty quantification of treatment 
    effects and other quantities of interest. Supports time-varying covariates 
    with potentially time-varying effects, single or multiple treated units, 
    and staggered treatment adoption. Provides methods for model assessment, 
    comparison, and selection based on placebo studies, cross-validation, and 
    posterior predictive checks. Posterior sampling is performed using Markov 
    chain Monte Carlo via Stan.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.1.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: checkmate, cli, dplyr, ggplot2, loo, methods, posterior,
progressr, projpred, quadprog, Rcpp (&gt;= 0.12.0), RcppParallel
(&gt;= 5.0.1), rlang, rstan (&gt;= 2.32.7), rstantools (&gt;= 2.6.0),
tidyr</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>LinkingTo: BH (&gt;= 1.66.0), Rcpp (&gt;= 0.12.0), RcppEigen (&gt;= 0.3.3.3.0),
RcppParallel (&gt;= 5.0.1), rstan (&gt;= 2.32.7), StanHeaders (&gt;=
2.32.10)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Jouni Helske &lt;jouni.helske@iki.fi&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Jouni Helske [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7130-793X&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-08-09</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=bscm</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.bscm</dc:identifier>
</oai_dc:dc>
