Synth: An R Package for Synthetic Control Methods in Comparative Case Studies

The R package Synth implements synthetic control methods for comparative case studies designed to estimate the causal e ects of policy interventions and other events of interest (Abadie and Gardeazabal 2003; Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller 2010). These techniques are particularly well-suited to inv...

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Main Authors: Abadie, Alberto, Diamond, Alexis, Hainmueller, Jens
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: UCLA Statistics/American Statistical Association 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71234

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