{"id":1272,"date":"2012-09-12T10:22:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2012-09-12T10:22:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:22:58","slug":"rdd-a-new-r-package-for-nonparametric-estimation-with-regression-discontinuity-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"`rdd&#8217;: A new R package for nonparametric estimation with regression discontinuity designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Dimmery, a current NYU PhD student, has just finished coding up a new package for R that applies state-of-the-art non-parametric methods to estimate treatment effects for regression discontinuity designs.  The package is now in beta, and we are looking for feedback from users.  Drew has a nice description at his blog here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drewdimmery.com\/introducing-the-rdd-package-beta\/\">link<\/a>.  Drew also posted an introduction to the package to the POLMETH listserv: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/QJpzTN\">link<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Some great feedback has already come in, focusing in particular on possible problems with the Imbens-Kalynaraman bandwidth selection algorithm.  If you have suggestions on improvements on that front, we are especially interested.<\/p>\n<p>We are hoping to add more functionality to future versions (e.g., nonparametric covariate adjustment).<\/p>\n<p>We would love to receive more feedback, whether in comments here, on Drew&#8217;s blog, or via email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Dimmery, a current NYU PhD student, has just finished coding up a new package for R that applies state-of-the-art non-parametric methods to estimate treatment effects for regression discontinuity designs. The package is now in beta, and we are looking for feedback from users. Drew has a nice description at his blog here: link. Drew &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/?p=1272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;`rdd&#8217;: A new R package for nonparametric estimation with regression discontinuity designs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrussamii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}