Matias D. Cattaneo from the University of San Diego developed a package implementing density discontinuity testing procedures. The package includes functions to construct test statistics, perform bandwidth selection, and create density plots for detecting self-selection in program evaluation settings. The dataset likely contains statistical outputs from these tests.
Use Cases
- Detecting perfect self-selection around a policy cutoff based on density discontinuity testing
- Evaluating program assignment integrity based on manipulation testing procedures
- Visualizing density distributions around a cutoff based on rdplotdensity() function
Strengths
- Package implements established local polynomial density estimators
- Includes data-driven bandwidth selection via rdbwdensity()
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
Provenance
- Source
- University of San Diego
- Collection Method
- Software package for statistical testing