Counterfactual: An R Package for Counterfactual Analysis

Abstract:

The Counterfactual package implements the estimation and inference methods of Cher nozhukov et al. (2013) for counterfactual analysis. The counterfactual distributions considered are the result of changing either the marginal distribution of covariates related to the outcome variable of interest, or the conditional distribution of the outcome given the covariates. They can be applied to estimate quantile treatment effects and wage decompositions. This paper serves as an introduction to the package and displays basic functionality of the commands contained within.

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Published

June 7, 2017

Received

Sep 15, 2016

DOI

10.32614/RJ-2017-033

Volume

Pages

9/1

370 - 384

CRAN packages used

Counterfactual, quantreg, survival

CRAN Task Views implied by cited packages

Econometrics, SocialSciences, Survival, ClinicalTrials, Environmetrics, Optimization, ReproducibleResearch, Robust

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    Chen, et al., "The R Journal: Counterfactual: An R Package for Counterfactual Analysis", The R Journal, 2017

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    @article{RJ-2017-033,
      author = {Chen, Mingli and Chernozhukov, Victor and Fernández-Val, Iván and Melly, Blaise},
      title = {The R Journal: Counterfactual: An R Package for Counterfactual Analysis},
      journal = {The R Journal},
      year = {2017},
      note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2017-033},
      doi = {10.32614/RJ-2017-033},
      volume = {9},
      issue = {1},
      issn = {2073-4859},
      pages = {370-384}
    }