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magentabook: HM Treasury Magenta Book Policy Evaluation Primitives

Implements policy evaluation primitives from HM Treasury Magenta Book guidance (HM Treasury, 2020): theory of change and log-frame construction, evaluation planning and stakeholder mapping, power and minimum-detectable-effect calculations for randomised designs (including cluster and stepped-wedge designs following 'Hussey' and 'Hughes' (2007) <doi:10.1016/j.cct.2006.05.007> and 'Hemming' et al. (2015) <doi:10.1136/bmj.h391>), Maryland Scientific Methods Scale ratings, structured confidence ratings, light-weight difference-in-differences and interrupted-time-series estimators ('Bernal' et al. (2017) <doi:10.1093/ije/dyw098>) with cluster-robust standard errors ('Cameron' and 'Miller' (2015) <doi:10.3368/jhr.50.2.317>), pre-treatment balance checks ('Stuart' (2010) <doi:10.1214/09-STS313>), and cost-effectiveness analysis (cost per outcome, incremental cost-effectiveness ratio, acceptability curves, incremental net benefit, quality-adjusted and disability-adjusted life years). Designed as the evaluation companion to the appraisal package 'greenbook'. Bundled rubric and reference tables carry vintage metadata for reproducibility.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: cli (≥ 3.6.0), stats, utils
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, openxlsx, officer, flextable, pwr, sandwich, swCRTdesign, BCEA, cobalt
Published: 2026-04-29
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.magentabook (may not be active yet)
Author: Charles Coverdale [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Charles Coverdale <charlesfcoverdale at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/magentabook/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/magentabook
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: magentabook citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: magentabook results

Documentation:

Reference manual: magentabook.html , magentabook.pdf
Vignettes: Cost-effectiveness with magentabook and greenbook (source, R code)
Designing a Magenta Book evaluation (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: magentabook_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: magentabook_0.1.0.zip, r-release: magentabook_0.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): magentabook_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): magentabook_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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