EquiTrends
Equivalence Testing for Pre-Trends in Difference-in-Differences Designs
Description
Testing for parallel trends is crucial in the Difference-in-Differences framework. To this end, this package performs equivalence testing in the context of Difference-in-Differences estimation. It allows users to test if pre-treatment trends in the treated group are “equivalent” to those in the control group. Here, “equivalence” means that rejection of the null hypothesis implies that a function of the pre-treatment placebo effects (maximum absolute, average or root mean squared value) does not exceed a pre-specified threshold below which trend differences are considered negligible. The package is based on the theory developed in Dette & Schumann (2024) <doi:10.1080/07350015.2024.2308121>.
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1 trackedR Observatory began tracking this package on Mar 10, 2026; it first appeared on CRAN Sep 3, 2024. Releases before tracking aren’t shown.