Type: Package
Package: mermboost
Title: Gradient Boosting for Generalized Additive Mixed Models
Version: 0.1.2
Authors@R: c(person(given = "Lars",
                      family = "Knieper",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "lars.knieper@uni-goettingen.de"),
               person(given = "Torsten",
                      family = "Hothorn",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Elisabeth",
                      family = "Bergherr",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Colin",
                      family = "Griesbach",
                      role = "aut"))
Author: Lars Knieper [aut, cre],
  Torsten Hothorn [aut],
  Elisabeth Bergherr [aut],
  Colin Griesbach [aut]
Maintainer: Lars Knieper <lars.knieper@uni-goettingen.de>
Description: Provides a novel framework to estimate mixed models via gradient 
    boosting. The implemented functions are based on the 'mboost' and 'lme4' packages, 
    and the family range is therefore determined by 'lme4'. A correction mechanism 
    for cluster-constant covariates is implemented, as well as estimation of the 
    covariance of random effects. These methods are described in 
    the accompanying publication; see <doi:10.1007/s11222-025-10612-y> for details.
License: GPL-2
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0), mboost, lme4
Imports: stabs, data.table, MASS, Matrix, parallel, stringr, tibble,
        reformulas
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-31 09:11:58 UTC; lars
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-07-31 09:40:02 UTC
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