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		Design-Robust Meta-Analysis via Variance-Function Models //
		Implements Design-Robust Meta-Analysis (DR-Meta), a variance-
		function random-effects framework in which between-study
		heterogeneity is modelled as a function of a study-level design
		robustness index, allowing heterogeneity to depend
		systematically on study quality or design strength rather than
		being treated as a single nuisance parameter. The package
		provides profiled restricted maximum likelihood (REML)
		estimation of the overall effect and variance-function
		parameters, study-specific weights, heterogeneity diagnostics
		(tau-squared, I-squared), influence and leave-one-out analysis,
		and graphical tools including forest plots and influence plots.
		The DR-Meta framework nests classical fixed-effects and
		standard random-effects meta-analysis as special cases, making
		it a strict generalisation of existing approaches.
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