RDDENSITY
The rddensity package provides tools for manipulation testing around a cutoff using local polynomial density estimators, bandwidth selection, and density plotting.
rddensity: implements density discontinuity testing.rdbwdensity: implements bandwidth selectors for manipulation testing.rdplotdensity: implements density plots around the cutoff.
See Cattaneo, Jansson and Ma (2018, 2020, 2022, 2024) for references.
Website: https://rdpackages.github.io/.
Source code: https://github.com/rdpackages/rddensity.
Authors
Matias D. Cattaneo, maintainer (matias.d.cattaneo@gmail.com)
Michael Jansson (michael.jansson.berkeley@gmail.com)
Xinwei Ma (xinweima.pku@gmail.com)
Ricardo Masini, Python contributor (ricardo.masini@gmail.com)
Installation
To install/update use pip:
pip install rddensity
Usage
from rddensity import rddensity, rdbwdensity, rdplotdensity
- Replication: rddensity illustration, rdplotdensity illustration, senate data.
Dependencies
- numpy
- pandas
- scipy
- sympy
- plotnine
- lpdensity
References
For overviews and introductions, see the rdpackages website.
Software and Implementation
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Cattaneo, Jansson and Ma (2018): Manipulation Testing based on Density Discontinuity.
Stata Journal 18(1): 234-261. -
Cattaneo, Jansson and Ma (2022): lpdensity: Local Polynomial Density Estimation and Inference.
Journal of Statistical Software 101(2): 1-25.
Technical and Methodological
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Cattaneo, Jansson and Ma (2020): Simple Local Polynomial Density Estimators.
Journal of the American Statistical Association 115(531): 1449-1455.
Supplemental appendix. -
Cattaneo, Jansson and Ma (2024): Local Regression Distribution Estimators.
Journal of Econometrics 240(2): 105074.
Supplemental appendix.
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