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		Generalized Linear Mixed Models via Fully Exponential Laplace in
		EM // Fit generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) with normal
		random effects using first-order Laplace, fully exponential
		Laplace (FEL) with mean-only corrections, and FEL with mean and
		covariance corrections in the E-step of an expectation-
		maximization (EM) algorithm. The current development version
		provides a matrix-based interface (y, X, Z) and supports binary
		logit and probit, and Poisson log-link models. An EM framework
		is used to update fixed effects, random effects, and a single
		variance component tau^2 for G = tau^2 I, with staged
		approximations (Laplace - FEL mean-only - FEL full) for
		efficiency and stability. A pseudo-likelihood engine
		glmmFEL_pl() implements the working-response / working-weights
		linearization approach of Wolfinger and O'Connell (1993)
		doi:10.1080/00949659308811554, and is adapted from the
		implementation used in the 'RealVAMS' package (Broatch, Green,
		and Karl (2018)) doi:10.32614/RJ-2018-033. The FEL
		implementation follows Karl, Yang, and Lohr (2014)
		doi:10.1016/j.csda.2013.11.019 and related work (e.g., Tierney,
		Kass, and Kadane (1989) doi:10.1080/01621459.1989.10478824;
		Rizopoulos, Verbeke, and Lesaffre (2009)
		doi:10.1111/j.1467-9868.2008.00704.x; Steele (1996)
		doi:10.2307/2532845). Package code was drafted with assistance
		from generative AI tools.
	</longdescription>
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