dsem: Dynamic Structural Equation Models (original) (raw)

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:

1.7.0

Depends:

R (≥ 4.0.0)

Imports:

TMB, Matrix, sem, igraph, utils, RTMB (≥ 1.7.0), ggraph, ggplot2, grid, methods, stats

LinkingTo:

TMB, RcppEigen

Suggests:

knitr, AER, phylopath, rmarkdown, reshape, gridExtra, dynlm, MARSS, ggpubr, vars, testthat, DHARMa

Enhances:

rstan, tmbstan

Published:

2025-09-16

DOI:

10.32614/CRAN.package.dsem

Author:

James Thorson ORCID iD [aut, cre], Maurice Goodman ORCID iD [ctb], Wouter van der BijlORCID iD [ctb] (template for d-separation test), Giovanni M. Marchetti [ctr] (creator of ggm, from which functions are copied to avoid dependency on package graph not on CRAN)

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