DecisionDrift: Detecting, Decomposing, and Stress-Testing Temporal Change in Repeated Decision Systems

Tools for detecting, decomposing, and stress-testing temporal drift in repeated binary decision systems. Complements the 'decisionpaths' package by shifting focus from path construction to system-level change over time. Implements five core analytic modules: (1) prevalence drift — did the overall decision rate change over time?; (2) transition drift — did the probability of switching or persisting change?; (3) entropy and stability trends — did path complexity evolve?; (4) group-differential drift — did the system drift differently across subgroups?; (5) change-point and regime-shift detection — did the system change abruptly after a policy or model update? Additionally provides a robustness module for testing stability of drift conclusions across analytic choices, and a sensitivity module for probing vulnerability to data problems including missingness, miscoding, and threshold shifts. Defines four original drift indices: the Decision Drift Index (DDI), Transition Drift Index (TDI), Group Differential Drift (GDD), and Cumulative Drift Burden (CDB). Applications include algorithmic audit, AI governance, education, health, and organisational research.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: cli (≥ 3.0.0), rlang (≥ 0.4.0), stats, tibble (≥ 3.0.0)
Suggests: decisionpaths, ggplot2 (≥ 3.3.0), knitr, patchwork, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-04-16
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.DecisionDrift (may not be active yet)
Author: Subir Hait ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Subir Hait <haitsubi at msu.edu>
BugReports: https://github.com/causalfragility-lab/DecisionDrift/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/causalfragility-lab/DecisionDrift
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: DecisionDrift results

Documentation:

Reference manual: DecisionDrift.html , DecisionDrift.pdf
Vignettes: DecisionDrift: Auditing Temporal Drift in Repeated Decision Systems (source, R code)

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Package source: DecisionDrift_0.1.0.tar.gz
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