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  <dc:title>Bayesian Multivariable Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package MR.RGM version 0.1.3</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Fits multivariable bidirectional Mendelian randomization networks with Bayesian directed cyclic graphical models (reciprocal graphical models; Ni, Ji and Mueller (2018) &lt;doi:10.1214/17-BA1087&gt;), an earlier version of which is described in Sarkar and Ni (2025) &lt;doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf130&gt;. The causal effects among the responses, which may form directed cycles, are estimated with spike-and-slab or threshold priors, and posterior probabilities of network motifs are provided. With a known instrument-response map the instrument effects obey the exclusion restrictions; with an unrestricted map they are selected by a spike-and-slab prior, which allows invalid instruments (horizontal pleiotropy). The input can be individual-level data, the second-moment matrices of one sample, or marginal instrument-response regressions, with optional measured covariates. The error covariance can be diagonal, inverse-Wishart, or a stochastic search structure learning prior (Wang (2015) &lt;doi:10.1214/14-BA916&gt;) whose inclusion indicators describe unmeasured confounding among the responses. Inference is by Markov chain Monte Carlo with exact Gibbs updates of the instrument effects and adaptive random-walk Metropolis updates of the causal effects (Roberts and Rosenthal (2009) &lt;doi:10.1198/jcgs.2009.06134&gt;); the fitting function reports diagnostics of weak instruments, weak identification and convergence.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Imports: Rcpp, stats, utils, igraph, GIGrvg</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo, GIGrvg</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat (&gt;= 3.1.5)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Bitan Sarkar &lt;bitansarkar010899@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Bitan Sarkar [aut, cre],
  Yang Ni [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-11-07</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=MR.RGM</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.MR.RGM</dc:identifier>
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