R Observatory: Metrics for Counterfactual version 1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Counterfactual

1.2

Estimation and Inference Methods for Counterfactual Analysis

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Overview

About

Maintained by Ivan Fernandez-ValFirst published 2016-09-213 releasesCRAN page ↗

Implements the estimation and inference methods for counterfactual analysis described in Chernozhukov, Fernandez-Val and Melly (2013) DOI:10.3982/ECTA10582 "Inference on Counterfactual Distributions," Econometrica, 81(6). 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.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("Counterfactual", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-counterfactual

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-Counterfactual

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-Counterfactual

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

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Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 100%

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Listed in earlier versions (4)

Mingli Chen

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.2

Victor Chernozhukov

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Ivan Fernandez-Val

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Blaise Melly

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First published: 2016-09-21
Total releases: 3 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Bundled data: 43 KB / 1 file
Download size: 410 KB
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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Counterfactual version 1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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