synth.data {Synth}

Panel Data to demonstrate the use of the Synthetic Control Method

Description

This artificial panel data set is used to demonstrate the use of the Synthetic Control Method.

Usage

data(synth.data)

Format

A dataframe made up of 8 units: 1 treated (no 7) and 7 control (no. 2,7,13,17,29,32,36,38) , 3 predictors (X1, X2, X3), 21 time periods (1980 - 2000), a unit.names.variable column ("names") and an outcome variable column (Y). All columns have column names.