rdpower: Power, Sample Size, and Minimum Detectable Effect Calculations for RD Designs

The regression discontinuity (RD) design is a popular quasi-experimental design for causal inference and policy evaluation. The 'rdpower' package provides tools to perform power, sample size, and minimum detectable effect calculations in RD designs: rdpower() calculates the power of an RD design, rdsampsi() calculates the required sample size to achieve a desired power, and rdmde() calculates minimum detectable effects. See Cattaneo, Titiunik and Vazquez-Bare (2019) <https://rdpackages.github.io/references/Cattaneo-Titiunik-VazquezBare_2019_Stata.pdf> for further methodological details.

Package details

AuthorMatias D. Cattaneo [aut, cre], Rocio Titiunik [aut], Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare [aut]
MaintainerMatias D. Cattaneo <matias.d.cattaneo@gmail.com>
LicenseGPL-3
Version3.0
URL https://github.com/rdpackages/rdpower
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("rdpower")

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rdpower documentation built on May 18, 2026, 1:07 a.m.