Optimal Data-Driven Regression Discontinuity Plots

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 110, Issue 512, 2015, Pages 1753-1769

  Calonico, Sebastian ^a   Cattaneo, Matias D ^b   Titiunik, Rocío ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Binning; Partitioning; RD plots; Tuning parameter selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938914336     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2015.1017578     Document Type: Article

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