Package: observationalBlocks
Type: Package
Title: Block Designs for Observational Studies
Version: 1.0.0
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
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
LazyData: true
Packaged: 2026-04-04 19:15:23 UTC; katherine
Author: Katherine Brumberg [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5193-6250>),
  Paul Rosenbaum [aut]
Maintainer: Katherine Brumberg <kbrum@umich.edu>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-04-10 09:50:02 UTC
Built: R 4.5.2; ; 2026-04-15 05:03:17 UTC; unix
