MIRDD-package: MIRDD: Diagnostic Tool by Multiple Imputation for Regression...

MIRDD-packageR Documentation

MIRDD: Diagnostic Tool by Multiple Imputation for Regression Discontinuity Designs

Description

This package implements the method proposed in Takahashi (2023), which provides a novel framework for the regression discontinuity design (RDD) by reinterpreting the estimation of treatment effects as a missing data problem. While standard RDD relies on observations near the cutoff, MIRDD utilizes multiple imputation to account for missing potential outcomes, offering a diagnostic tool to assess the validity and robustness of RDD estimates.

Details

The main function in this package is MIdiagRDD.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Masayoshi Takahashi mtakahashi615@g.chuo-u.ac.jp (ORCID)

References

Takahashi, M. 2023. Multiple imputation regression discontinuity designs: Alternative to regression discontinuity designs to estimate the local average treatment effect at the cutoff. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation 52 (9): 4293-4312. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1080/03610918.2021.1960374")}

Takahashi, M. 2026. MIRDD: An R package for multiple imputation regression discontinuity design. SoftwareX 34(102707): 1-6. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1016/j.softx.2026.102707")}


MIRDD documentation built on May 15, 2026, 9:07 a.m.