NEWS.md

In IvershinAnastasiia/for_R_package: Instrumental-Variables Regression by 2SLS, 2SM, or 2SMM, with Diagnostics

Version 0.6-0

• Three-part right-hand side formulas are supported now to facilitate specification of models with many exogenous regressors. For example, if there is one exogenous regressor ex and one endogenous regressor en with instrument in, a formula with three parts on the right-hand side can now also be used: y ~ ex | en | in. This is equivalent to specifying: y ~ en + ex | in + ex.

• Robust-regression estimators are provided as an alternative to ordinary least squares (OLS) both in stage 1 and 2 by means of rlm() from package MASS. Specifically, in addition to 2-stage least squares (2SLS, method = "OLS", default) ivreg() now supports 2-stage M-estimation (2SM, method = "M") and 2-stage MM-estimation (2SMM, method = "MM").

• Dedicated confint() method allowing specification of the variance-covariance matrix vcov. and degrees of freedom df to be used (as in the summary() method).

• Include information about which "regressors" are endogenous variables and which "instruments" are instruments for the endogenous variables in the fitted model objects from ivreg() and ivreg.fit(). Both provide elements $endogenous and $instruments which are named integer vectors provided that endogenous/instrument variables exist, and integers of length zero if not.

• Include df.residual1 element in ivreg objects with the residual degrees of freedom from the stage-1 regression.

• Add coef(..., component = "stage1"), vcov(..., component = "stage1"), and confint(..., component = "stage1") for the estimated coefficients and corresponding variance-covariance matrix and confidence intervals from the stage-1 regression (only for the endogenous regressors). (Prompted by a request from Grant McDermott.)

• Add residuals(..., type = "stage1") with the residuals from the stage-1 regression (only for the endogenous regressors).

• The coef(), vcov(), and confint() methods gained a complete = TRUE argument assuring that the elements pertaining to aliased coefficients are included. By setting complete = FALSE these elements are dropped.

• Include demonstration how to use ivreg() results in model summary tables and plots using the modelsummary package.

• Small edits to the Diagnostics vignette.

Version 0.5-0

• Initial version of the ivreg package: An implementation of instrumental variables regression using two-stage least-squares (2SLS) estimation, based on the ivreg() function previously in the AER package. In addition to standard regression functionality (parameter estimation, inference, predictions, etc.) the package provides various regression diagnostics, including hat values, deletion diagnostics such as studentized residuals and Cook's distances; graphical diagnostics such as component-plus-residual plots and added-variable plots; and effect plots with partial residuals.

• An overview of the package, documentation, examples, and vignettes are provided at https://john-d-fox.github.io/ivreg/.

IvershinAnastasiia/for_R_package documentation built on March 7, 2021, 12:12 a.m.