TY - JOUR
T1 - Rdrobust
T2 - An R package for robust nonparametric inference in regression-discontinuity designs
AU - Calonico, Sebastian
AU - Cattaneo, Matias D.
AU - Titiunik, Rocío
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This article describes the R package rdrobust, which provides data-driven graphical and inference procedures for RD designs. The package includes three main functions: rdrobust, rdbwselect and rdplot. The first function (rdrobust) implements conventional local-polynomial RD treatment effect point estimators and confidence intervals, as well as robust bias-corrected confidence intervals, for average treatment effects at the cutoff. This function covers sharp RD, sharp kink RD, fuzzy RD and fuzzy kink RD designs, among other possibilities. The second function (rdbwselect) implements several bandwidth selectors proposed in the RD literature. The third function (rdplot) provides data-driven optimal choices of evenly-spaced and quantile-spaced partition sizes, which are used to implement several data-driven RD plots.
AB - This article describes the R package rdrobust, which provides data-driven graphical and inference procedures for RD designs. The package includes three main functions: rdrobust, rdbwselect and rdplot. The first function (rdrobust) implements conventional local-polynomial RD treatment effect point estimators and confidence intervals, as well as robust bias-corrected confidence intervals, for average treatment effects at the cutoff. This function covers sharp RD, sharp kink RD, fuzzy RD and fuzzy kink RD designs, among other possibilities. The second function (rdbwselect) implements several bandwidth selectors proposed in the RD literature. The third function (rdplot) provides data-driven optimal choices of evenly-spaced and quantile-spaced partition sizes, which are used to implement several data-driven RD plots.
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U2 - 10.32614/rj-2015-004
DO - 10.32614/rj-2015-004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84934762493
VL - 7
SP - 38
EP - 51
JO - R Journal
JF - R Journal
SN - 2073-4859
IS - 1
ER -