rdrobust

Regression-discontinuity (RD) designs are quasi-experimental research designs popular in social, behavioral and natural sciences. The RD design is usually employed to study the (local) causal effect of a treatment, intervention or policy. This package provides tools for data-driven graphical and analytical statistical inference in RD designs: rdrobust() to construct local-polynomial point estimators and robust confidence intervals for average treatment effects at the cutoff in Sharp, Fuzzy and Kink RD settings, rdbwselect() to perform bandwidth selection for the different procedures implemented, and rdplot() to conduct exploratory data analysis (RD plots).

Last 30 days

This package has been downloaded 4,377 times in the last 30 days. Now we’re talking! This work is officially 'heard of in academic circles', just like those wild research papers on synthetic bananas. The following heatmap shows the distribution of downloads per day. Yesterday, it was downloaded 138 times.

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Last 365 days

This package has been downloaded 42,231 times in the last 365 days. The downloads are officially high enough to crash an underfunded departmental server. Quite an accomplishment! The day with the most downloads was Nov 22, 2024 with 381 downloads.

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