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title: 'pc: Pattern Causality Analysis'
version: '0.3'
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.pc
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abstract: Infer causation from observational data through pattern causality analysis
  (PC), with original algorithm for time series data from Stavroglou et al. (2020)
  <https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918269117>, as well as methodological extensions
  for spatial cross-sectional data introduced by Zhang & Wang (2025) <https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2025.2581207>,
  together with a systematic description proposed in Lyu et al. (2026) <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2026.102435>.
authors:
- family-names: Lyu
  given-names: Wenbo
  email: lyu.geosocial@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6003-3800
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'pc: Pattern Causality Analysis'
  authors:
  - family-names: Lyu
    given-names: Wenbo
    email: lyu.geosocial@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6003-3800
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 0.3
  doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.pc
repository: https://stscl.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/stscl/pc
commit: 0a1c5b46aa61ddec5c7f2d13ed39f01dcc67c598
url: https://stscl.github.io/pc/
date-released: '2026-05-26'
contact:
- family-names: Lyu
  given-names: Wenbo
  email: lyu.geosocial@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6003-3800