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  <dc:title>Probabilistic Decomposition of Archaeological Palimpsests</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package palimpsestr version 0.10.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Probabilistic framework for the analysis of archaeological
    palimpsests based on the Stratigraphic Entanglement Field (SEF).
    Integrates spatial proximity, stratigraphic depth, chronological
    overlap, and cultural similarity to estimate latent depositional
    phases via diagonal Gaussian mixture Expectation-Maximisation (EM).
    Provides the Stratigraphic Entanglement Index (SEI), Excavation
    Stratigraphic Energy (ESE), and Palimpsest Dissolution Index (PDI)
    for quantifying depositional coherence, detecting intrusive finds,
    and measuring palimpsest formation. Includes simulation, diagnostics,
    phase-count selection, publication-quality plots, and Geographic
    Information System (GIS) export via 'sf'. Methods are described in Cocca (2026)
    &lt;https://github.com/enzococca/palimpsestr&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.1.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: stats, utils, graphics, grDevices</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, sf, ggplot2, viridis,
ggrepel, plotly, DBI, RSQLite, RPostgres</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Enzo Cocca &lt;enzo.ccc@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Enzo Cocca [aut, cre] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8096-2810&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=palimpsestr/LICENSE)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-04-09</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=palimpsestr</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.palimpsestr</dc:identifier>
</oai_dc:dc>
