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rddensity

Manipulation Testing Based on Density Discontinuity

v2.6 · Oct 6, 2024 · GPL-2

Description

Density discontinuity testing (a.k.a. manipulation testing) is commonly employed in regression discontinuity designs and other program evaluation settings to detect perfect self-selection (manipulation) around a cutoff where treatment/policy assignment changes. This package implements manipulation testing procedures using the local polynomial density estimators: rddensity() to construct test statistics and p-values given a prespecified cutoff, rdbwdensity() to perform data-driven bandwidth selection, and rdplotdensity() to construct density plots.

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OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies ggplot2 lpdensity artma rddensity

Version History

new 2.6 Mar 10, 2026
updated 2.6 ← 2.5 diff Oct 5, 2024
updated 2.5 ← 2.4 diff Jan 21, 2024
updated 2.4 ← 2.3 diff Jan 21, 2023
updated 2.3 ← 2.2 diff Nov 29, 2022
updated 2.2 ← 2.1 diff Mar 3, 2021
updated 2.1 ← 2.0 diff Sep 1, 2020
updated 2.0 ← 1.0 diff Aug 4, 2020
updated 1.0 ← 0.2.2 diff Jul 12, 2019
updated 0.2.2 ← 0.2.1 diff Aug 2, 2017
updated 0.2.1 ← 0.2 diff Jul 8, 2017
updated 0.2 ← 0.1 diff Jun 3, 2017
new 0.1 Mar 15, 2017