Package: summary2joint
Type: Package
Title: Joint Distribution Estimation from Marginal Study Summaries
Version: 0.1.0
Authors@R: person("Xuekui", "Zhang", email = "ubcxzhang@gmail.com",
    role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4728-2343"))
Description: Estimates latent Gaussian joint distributions for normal continuous,
    binary, and ordinal variables using marginal summaries from independent
    studies of a common population. Fits a pairwise Gaussian working criterion
    using exact summary moments, with study-level sandwich uncertainty.
    Supports prespecified independent groups, joint event probabilities, and
    synthetic patient generation. Identification requires repeated joint
    reporting of variable pairs; heterogeneous populations, rare categories,
    and small study collections require caution.
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports: Rcpp, mvtnorm, numDeriv, stats, utils
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown
VignetteBuilder: knitr
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-09-20 03:13:52 UTC; xzhang
Author: Xuekui Zhang [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4728-2343>)
Maintainer: Xuekui Zhang <ubcxzhang@gmail.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-09-29 15:30:02 UTC
