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		Infrastructure for Mediation Model Fitting and Extraction //
		Provides S7-based infrastructure for fitting mediation models,
		extracting path coefficients, and performing bootstrap
		inference. Designed as a foundation package for the mediation
		analysis ecosystem, supporting 'probmed', 'RMediation', and
		'medrobust' packages. Implements unified interfaces for model
		fitting across different engines (currently generalized linear
		models, with future support for mixed models and Bayesian
		methods), standardized extraction of mediation paths from
		various model types, and robust bootstrap inference methods.
		Mediation methods are described in MacKinnon, Lockwood and
		Williams (2004) doi:10.1207/s15327906mbr3901_4, Preacher and
		Hayes (2008) doi:10.3758/brm.40.3.879, Tofighi and MacKinnon
		(2011) doi:10.3758/s13428-011-0076-x, and VanderWeele (2014)
		doi:10.1097/EDE.0000000000000121.
	</longdescription>
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