synth.tab {Synth}R Documentation

Creates Tables that Summarize Results of Synthetic Control Group Method

Description

This function is called after dataprep and synth in order to create tables summarizing the results of the run of the synthetic control method. The result tables can be latexed directly.

Usage

synth.tab(synth.res    = NA,
          dataprep.res = NA,
          round.digit  = 3)

Arguments

synth.res The list resulting from the call to synth.
dataprep.res The list resulting from the call to dataprep.
round.digit Integer for rounding in tables.

Details

NA

Value

tab.v The matrix that contains the table of V-weights and respective variable names.
tab.w The matrix that contains the table of W-weights and respective unit numbers and possibly names.
tab.loss The matrix that contains the table of W-loss and V-loss

Note

NA

Author(s)

Alexis Diamond adiamond@fas.harvard.edu Jens Hainmueller jhainm@fas.harvard.edu

References

Abadie, A. and Gardeazabal, J. (2003) Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case Study of the Basque Country American Economic Review 93 (1) 113–132 http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.aabadie.academic.ksg/ecc.pdf

Abadie, A., Diamond, A., Hainmueller, J. (2007) Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program NBER Technical Working Paper no 335 http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~jhainm/

See Also

gaps.plot,synth.plot,dataprep,synth.tab

Examples

##---- Should be DIRECTLY executable !! ----
##-- ==>  Define data, use random,
##--    or do  help(data=index)  for the standard data sets.

## The function is currently defined as

[Package Synth version 0.1-6 Index]