The hardware and bandwidth for this mirror is donated by dogado GmbH, the Webhosting and Full Service-Cloud Provider. Check out our Wordpress Tutorial.
If you wish to report a bug, or if you are interested in having us mirror your free-software or open-source project, please feel free to contact us at mirror[@]dogado.de.

dScoreTest: Debiased Score Tests for Goodness of Fit and Model Comparison

Debiased (Neyman-orthogonalized) score tests for assessing whether a semiparametric or parametric regression model is well-specified and for comparing nested models. The test employs a hunt-and-test strategy: on a held-out hunt sample, it fits the null model and uses machine learning to find a direction in which the null model's score seems positive; on an independent test sample, it assesses the significance of the score in the hunted direction. The test employs orthogonalization to eliminate the bias from estimating the null model, yielding a test statistic that is asymptotically standard normal under the null without requiring a parametric form for the alternative. Methods are provided for 'glm', 'lm' and 'mgcv::gam' fits as well as for detecting heterogeneous treatment effects. The methodology is described in Dhawan, Guo and Shah (2026) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2607.28861>.

Version: 1.0.0
Imports: grf, mgcv
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, speff2trial, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-09-02
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.dScoreTest (may not be active yet)
Author: F. Richard Guo ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph], Aditya Dhawan [aut]
Maintainer: F. Richard Guo <ricguo at umich.edu>
BugReports: https://github.com/richardkwo/dScoreTest/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://unbiased.co.in/dScoreTest/, https://github.com/richardkwo/dScoreTest
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: dScoreTest citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: dScoreTest results

Documentation:

Reference manual: dScoreTest.html , dScoreTest.pdf
Vignettes: Getting started with dScoreTest (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: dScoreTest_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: dScoreTest_1.0.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): dScoreTest_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): dScoreTest_1.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): dScoreTest_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): dScoreTest_1.0.0.tgz

Linking:

Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=dScoreTest to link to this page.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
Health stats visible at Monitor.