R/rdpower_package.R

In rdpower: Power Calculations for RD Designs

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# rdpower: Power calculations for RD designs
# !version 2.2 20-Jun-2022
# Authors: Matias Cattaneo, Rocio Titiunik, Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare
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#' rdpower: Power and Sample Size Calculations for RD Designs
#'
#' The regression discontinuity (RD) design is a popular quasi-experimental design
#' for causal inference and policy evaluation. The \code{'rdpower'} package provides tools
#' to perform power, sample size and MDE calculations in RD designs: \code{\link{rdpower}()} calculates
#' the power of an RD design, \code{\link{rdsampsi}()} calculates the required sample size to achieve
#' a desired power and \code{\link{rdmde}()} calculates minimum detectable effects. This package relies on the \code{rdrobust} package. See Calonico, Cattaneo and Titiunik (2014, 2015) and
#' Calonico, Cattaneo, Farrell and Titiunik (2017).
#' For more details, and related \code{Stata} and \code{R} packages
#' useful for analysis of RD designs, visit \url{https://rdpackages.github.io/}.
#'
#' @author
#' Matias Cattaneo, Princeton University. \email{cattaneo@princeton.edu}
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#' Rocio Titiunik, Princeton University. \email{titiunik@princeton.edu}
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#' Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare, UC Santa Barbara. \email{gvazquez@econ.ucsb.edu}
#'
#' @references
#'
#' Calonico, S., M. D. Cattaneo, M. Farrell and R. Titiunik. (2017).\href{https://rdpackages.github.io/references/Calonico-Cattaneo-Farrell-Titiunik_2017_Stata.pdf}{ \code{rdrobust}: Software for Regression Discontinuity Designs}. \emph{Stata Journal} 17(2): 372-404.
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#' Calonico, S., M. D. Cattaneo, and R. Titiunik. (2014). \href{https://rdpackages.github.io/references/Calonico-Cattaneo-Titiunik_2014_Stata.pdf}{Robust Data-Driven Inference in the Regression-Discontinuity Design}. \emph{Stata Journal} 14(4): 909-946.
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#' Calonico, S., M. D. Cattaneo, and R. Titiunik. (2015).\href{https://rdpackages.github.io/references/Calonico-Cattaneo-Titiunik_2015_R.pdf}{ \code{rdrobust}: An R Package for Robust Nonparametric Inference in Regression-Discontinuity Designs}. \emph{R Journal} 7(1): 38-51.
#'
#' Cattaneo, M. D., R. Titiunik and G. Vazquez-Bare. (2019). \href{https://rdpackages.github.io/references/Cattaneo-Titiunik-VazquezBare_2019_Stata.pdf}{Power Calculations for Regression Discontinuity Designs}. \emph{Stata Journal}, 19(1): 210-245.
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