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  <dc:title>Pattern Causality Analysis</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package pc version 0.1</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Infer causation from observational data through pattern causality analysis (PC), with original algorithm for time series data from Stavroglou et al. (2020) &lt;doi:10.1073/pnas.1918269117&gt;, as well as methodological extensions for spatial cross-sectional data introduced by Zhang &amp; Wang (2025) &lt;doi:10.1080/13658816.2025.2581207&gt;, together with a systematic description proposed in Runge et al. (2023) &lt;doi:10.1038/s43017-023-00431-y&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.1.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: methods, sdsfun, sf, terra</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppThread</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: Rcpp, RcppThread, readr, infoxtr, spEDM, tEDM</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Wenbo Lyu &lt;lyu.geosocial@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Wenbo Lyu [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6003-3800&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-03-30</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=pc</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.pc</dc:identifier>
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