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rdpower

Power Calculations for RD Designs

v2.3 · May 22, 2025 · GPL-2

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The regression discontinuity (RD) design is a popular quasi-experimental design for causal inference and policy evaluation. The 'rdpower' package provides tools to perform power, sample size and MDE calculations in RD designs: rdpower() calculates the power of an RD design, rdsampsi() calculates the required sample size to achieve a desired power and rdmde() calculates minimum detectable effects. See Cattaneo, Titiunik and Vazquez-Bare (2019) <https://rdpackages.github.io/references/Cattaneo-Titiunik-VazquezBare_2019_Stata.pdf> for further methodological details.

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new 2.3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 2.3 ← 2.2 diff May 22, 2025
updated 2.2 ← 2.1 diff Jun 21, 2022
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