Package: GreedyExperimentalDesign
Type: Package
Title: Greedy Experimental Design Construction
Version: 1.6
Date: 2026-1-1
Author: Adam Kapelner [aut, cre] (ORCID: 0000-0001-5985-6792),
  David Azriel [aut],
  Abba Krieger [aut]
Authors@R: c(person(given = "Adam",
                      family = "Kapelner",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "kapelner@qc.cuny.edu",
                      comment = "ORCID: 0000-0001-5985-6792"),
               person(given = "David",
                      family = "Azriel",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Abba",
                      family = "Krieger",
                      role = "aut"))
Maintainer: Adam Kapelner <kapelner@qc.cuny.edu>
Description: Computes experimental designs for two-arm experiments with
    covariates using multiple methods, including: (0) complete randomization
    and randomization with forced-balance; (1) greedy optimization of a balance
    objective function via pairwise switching; (2) numerical optimization via
    'gurobi'; (3) rerandomization; (4) Karp's method for one covariate; (5)
    exhaustive enumeration for small sample sizes; (6) binary pair matching
    using 'nbpMatching'; (7) binary pair matching plus method (1) to further
    optimize balance; (8) binary pair matching plus method (3) to further
    optimize balance; (9) Hadamard designs; and (10) simultaneous multiple
    kernels. For the greedy, rerandomization, and related methods, three
    objective functions are supported: Mahalanobis distance, standardized sums
    of absolute differences, and kernel distances via the 'kernlab' library.
    This package is the result of a stream of research that can be found in
    Krieger, A. M., Azriel, D. A., and Kapelner, A. (2019). "Nearly Random
    Designs with Greatly Improved Balance." Biometrika 106(3), 695-701
    <doi:10.1093/biomet/asz026>. Krieger, A. M., Azriel, D. A., and
    Kapelner, A. (2023). "Better experimental design by hybridizing binary
    matching with imbalance optimization." Canadian Journal of Statistics,
    51(1), 275-292 <doi:10.1002/cjs.11685>.
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0), rJava (>= 0.9-6)
SystemRequirements: Java (>= 7.0)
LinkingTo: Rcpp
Imports: Rcpp, checkmate, nbpMatching, rlist, stringr, stringi,
        kernlab, ggplot2, graphics, grDevices, stats
Suggests: testthat (>= 3.0.0), pkgload, R6
Config/testthat/edition: 3
URL: https://github.com/kapelner/GreedyExperimentalDesign
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-01-08 15:15:08 UTC; kapelner
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-01-09 09:31:18 UTC
