fn_treatment: Auxiliary function to generate the treatment variable D.

In facebookincubator/GeoLift: Synthetic Control Method to Calculate Lift at a Geo Level

Auxiliary function to generate the treatment variable D.

Description

fn_treatment generates the treatment variable D, where D = 1 for test locations in the test period and D = 0 otherwise.

Usage

fn_treatment(df, locations, treatment_start_time, treatment_end_time)

Arguments

df	A data.frame containing the historical conversions by geographic unit. It requires a "locations" column with the geo name, a "Y" column with the outcome data (units), a time column with the indicator of the time period (starting at 1), and covariates.
locations	List of names of the test locations (String).
treatment_start_time	Time index of the start of the treatment.
treatment_end_time	Time index of the end of the treatment.

Value

Data frame with the additional treatment variable (D).

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