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		Mixed-Effects Models with Autocorrelation Structures // Fits
		longitudinal generalized mixed-effects models through the
		'MEMWAS' interface and a registered 'C++' numerical backend.
		Supported serial covariance structures include first-order
		autoregressive (AR(1)), exponential or Ornstein-Uhlenbeck,
		higher-order autoregressive (AR(p)), first-order autoregressive
		moving-average (ARMA(1,1)), compound symmetry, Toeplitz, and
		unstructured covariance. Serial processes can be unified or
		attached independently to numeric predictor loadings. Candidate
		temporal structures can be ranked on a common sample by
		primary-cluster grouped cross-validation, the Akaike
		information criterion, the Bayesian information criterion, or
		log-likelihood. Clustered, crossed, and nested random
		intercepts and slopes are assembled jointly with diagonal or
		term-specific unstructured covariance. Available approximation
		methods include Laplace, saddlepoint likelihood with latent
		Laplace integration, adaptive Gaussian quadrature, full-
		covariance Gaussian variational inference, and penalized quasi-
		likelihood. Subject-grouped tuning requires every validation
		fold to succeed and supports fold-local nonlinear screening,
		bootstrap inference, prediction inference, and effective
		degrees of freedom for penalized information criteria. The
		mixed-effects framework follows Laird and Ware (1982)
		doi:10.2307/2529876; generalized-model approximations follow
		Breslow and Clayton (1993) doi:10.1080/01621459.1993.10594284;
		and serial covariance formulations follow Pinheiro and Bates
		(2000) doi:10.1007/b98882. The run-time fitting interface
		imports no third-party 'R' packages.
	</longdescription>
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