interflex-package: Multiplicative Interaction Models Diagnostics and...

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Description

Producing Flexible Marginal Effect Estimates with Multiplicative Interaction Models

Details

This package performs diagnostics and visualizations of multiplicative interaction models. Besides conventional linear interaction models, it provides two additional estimation strategies–linear regression based on pre-specified bins and locally linear regressions based on Gaussian kernels–to flexibly estimate the conditional marginal effect of a treatment variable on an outcome variable across different values of a moderating variable. These approaches relax the linear interaction effect assumption and safeguard against excessive extrapolation.

Author(s)

Jens Hainmueller; Jonathan Mummolo; Yiqing Xu (Maintainer); Ziyi Liu

References

Jens Hainmueller; Jonathan Mummolo; Yiqing Xu. 2019. "How Much Should We Trust Estimates from Multiplicative Interaction Models? Simple Tools to Improve Empirical Practice." Political Analysis, Vol. 27, Iss. 2, April 2019, pp. 163–192. Available at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-analysis/article/how-much-should-we-trust-estimates-from-multiplicative-interaction-models-simple-tools-to-improve-empirical-practice/D8CAACB473F9B1EE256F43B38E458706.

See Also

interflex, plot.interflex, and predict.interflex


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