Package: kernR
Title: Kernel-Based Causal Distributional Testing
Version: 0.8.2
Authors@R: c(
    person("Max", "Moldovan", , "max.moldovan@adelaide.edu.au",
           role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-9680-8474"))
    )
Description: Kernel-based hypothesis tests for causal inference and
        distributional treatment effects. Implements backdoor-adjusted
        HSIC (bd-HSIC) for testing causal association, and doubly
        robust kernel statistics (DR-DATE, DR-DETT) for testing
        distributional treatment effects beyond mean shifts. Supports
        binary, continuous, and mixed treatments, hierarchical/nested
        data structures, and scales to large datasets via Nystrom
        approximation and random Fourier features. This package depends
        on 'PESTO' (GPL (>= 3)); kernR's own sources are released under
        the MIT licence, but the installed combination with 'PESTO' is
        a combined work subject to the terms of the GPL (>= 3).
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/max578/kernR, https://max578.github.io/kernR
BugReports: https://github.com/max578/kernR/issues
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports: data.table, generics, methods, Rcpp, stats, PESTO (>= 0.6.0)
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo
Suggests: knitr, proxymix (>= 0.3.0), ranger, rmarkdown, testthat (>=
        3.0.0), vdiffr, xgboost
Remotes: github::max578/PESTO
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-GB
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Repository: https://max578.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-06-25 08:31:34 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/max578/kernR
RemoteRef: main
RemoteSha: 60bb618c0122f731513e0034ff9164044d2fb238
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-07-16 05:06:41 UTC; root
Author: Max Moldovan [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9680-8474>)
Maintainer: Max Moldovan <max.moldovan@adelaide.edu.au>