Package: observationalBlocks
Type: Package
Title: Block Designs for Observational Studies
Version: 1.1.0
Authors@R: c(
    person("Katherine", "Brumberg",
           email = "kbrum@umich.edu",
           role = c("aut", "cre"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-5193-6250")),
    person("Paul", "Rosenbaum",
           email = "rosenbaum@wharton.upenn.edu",
           role = c("aut"))
    )
Description: Creates block designs of fixed size J with at least one
        treated and control unit per block. Blocks larger than pairs
        better distinguish effects caused by a treatment from
        unmeasured confounding in assignment of individuals to
        treatment. Somewhat counterintuitively, blocks larger than
        pairs can use more units while attaining better covariate
        balance and block homogeneity. A forthcoming manuscript by
        Brumberg and Rosenbaum details the design.
License: GPL-2
Encoding: UTF-8
Imports: iTOS, lpSolve, stats
Suggests: DOS2, sensitivity2x2xk, sensitivitymv, weightedRank, xtable,
        testthat (>= 3.0.0)
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
NeedsCompilation: no
LazyData: true
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.1.0
Repository: https://kkbrum.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-09-20 20:22:54 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/kkbrum/observationalblocks
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: b172a77ef2d52404bb24d02c0bb75182764d0f02
Packaged: 2026-10-20 11:15:38 UTC; root
Author: Katherine Brumberg [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5193-6250>),
  Paul Rosenbaum [aut]
Maintainer: Katherine Brumberg <kbrum@umich.edu>