All references to “design” have been changed to “specification”.
*_design is now *_spec (e.g. rct_design is now rct_spec)
Design objects are now StudySpecification objects
The design= argument to lmitt() is now specification=.
propertee 0.4.1
New Features
Passing absorb = TRUE to lmitt without specifying a block proceeds as if the entire sample is a single block.
Bug Fixes
Fixed bug where use of dichotomy and moderator variables in lmitt() could lead to errors due to too long of a formula.
propertee 0.4.0
New Features
lmitt(), weights calculation functions ate() and ett(), and assignment vector generation function assigned() now accept a dichotomy argument that can be used for studies with time-varying treatment assignment. The Design object, unlike before, will not carry information about this dichotomization. Instead, the information stored there reflecting when units were assigned to treatment (if they were assigned to treatment) will be leveraged to create inverse probability of assignment weights and assignment indicators for datasets that have longitudinal data for the study units.
Bug Fixes
Standard error calculations no longer error when a by column is used to uniquely identify rows in the covariance adjustment or effect estimation sample that cannot be distinguished with information in the Design alone
propertee 0.3.10
Bug Fixes
Linking unit of assignments to clusters for variance estimation no longer errors when Design objects are created with a tibble
Scaling constants have been updated in estfun.teeMod() to account for a previously missing factor of sqrt(n / n_C) applied to contributions to the covariance adjustment model estimating equations
propertee 0.3.8
Breaking Changes
When model-based standard errors clustered at the level of assignment are called for in a blocked design, vcov_tee() clusters units of assignment in small blocks, blocks with only one treated or control unit, together.
propertee 0.3.7
Breaking Changes
vcov_tee() scales estimating equations using different constants than it did before
propertee 0.3.6
Bug Fixes
Previous procedure for aligning contributions to estimating equations from first-stage and second-stage models failed when column(s) used for alignment had NA’s. Outputs of vcov_tee() were liable to change from call to call as a result. This has been fixed.
propertee 0.3.5
Improvements
Diagonal elements of vcov_tee() matrices lacking sufficient degrees of freedom for estimation are returned as NA’s rather than numeric zeros. This is a deviation from the sandwich package that aims to provide clarity to results that may otherwise appear as negative diagonal elements of the vcov matrix
Bug Fixes
When lmitt() is called with a blocked design and absorb=TRUE, the block-centered assignment and, if applicable, moderator and assignment:moderator interaction columns, are no longer centered on the grand mean of the column. This ensures blocks that do not satisfy positivity of the assignment variable (or positivity within a factor level) do not contribute to effect estimation
Computational performance for estfun.teeMod has been improved
Bug Fixes
No more errors due to under-the-hood duplication of a moderator variable
absorb=TRUE estimates have been corrected in the case when all observations in a stratum have 0 weights due to only treated or control units of assignment existing in the stratum
propertee 0.3.3
Added Features
vcov_tee() can accept user-created variance estimation functions that start with the prefix .vcov_; the type argument should take the rest of the function name as an input
Variance estimation for robust GLM’s (models fit using robustbase::glmrob) is now accommodated
HC1 variance estimates are now accommodated
propertee 0.3.2
Added Features
Effect estimation for continuous moderator variables is now supported
Non-Breaking Changes
vcov_tee() will return NA’s for the entries of the covariance matrix that lack sufficient degrees of freedom for an estimate. Informative warnings will accompany the matrix, further indicating which standard errors have been NA’d out.
Bug Fixes
Functions for generating weights, ate() and ett(), return weights of 0 rather than infinity for blocks that contain treated units but no control units.
Prior covariate adjustment fits were previously incorporated into variance estimation differently depending on whether one created a SandwichLayer object before calling lmitt() or called cov_adj() in the offset argument of the lmitt() call. This has been corrected, and both ways return the same variance estimates.
Covariate adjustment models that admit rectangular bread matrices, such as those produced by robustbase::lmrob, are now accommodated given the reformulated estimating equations in versions v0.1.1 and later.
We now order teeMod objects’ matrix of estimating equations based on user-specified ID columns or unit of assignment ID’s.
The stats::update function can no longer be called on teeMod objects.
Non-Breaking Changes
teeMod objects now have lmitt_call slots.
summary calls on teeMod objects accept vcov.type arguments to specify the desired standard error calculation shown in the output. Acceptable types follow the documentation for vcov_tee.
Shown or printed teeMod objects return more comprehensible labels for ITT effect outputs.
R Version Compatibility
Now compatible with R 4.3. Particularly, we advise users working with R 4.3 to avoid expand.model.frame calls on teeMod objects and instead use the internal function .expand.model.frame_teeMod when necessary.
propertee 0.2.1
Breaking Changes
Stratum fixed effects and subgroup moderating effects can now be accounted for via the absorb argument. Previous versions did not properly support this functionality. Valid standard errors under absorption, however, have not been confirmed.
propertee 0.1.1
Breaking Changes
We have reformulated the estimating equations used to derive standard errors. In estimation settings we accommodate, testing has not revealed any differences in standard error estimates between the previous and current estimating equations, but we do not assure this is the case for all possible situations.
propertee 0.0.1
Compatible with R 4.2.3
Introduces functionality for direct adjusted and design-informed standard errors accommodating covariance adjustment in the model-based setting
Cluster-robust standard errors can only be estimated using the HC0 estimator
