| consist.test {evalITR} | R Documentation |
The Consistency Test for Grouped Average Treatment Effects (GATEs) in Randomized Experiments
Description
This function calculates statistics related to the test of treatment effect consistency across groups.
Usage
consist.test(T, tau, Y, ngates = 5, nsim = 10000)
Arguments
T |
A vector of the unit-level binary treatment receipt variable for each sample. |
tau |
A vector of the unit-level continuous score. Conditional Average Treatment Effect is one possible measure. |
Y |
A vector of the outcome variable of interest for each sample. |
ngates |
The number of groups to separate the data into. The groups are determined by |
nsim |
Number of Monte Carlo simulations used to simulate the null distributions. Default is 10000. |
Details
The details of the methods for this design are given in Imai and Li (2022).
Value
A list that contains the following items:
stat |
The estimated statistic for the test of consistency |
pval |
The p-value of the null hypothesis (that the treatment effects are consistent) |
Author(s)
Michael Lingzhi Li, Technology and Operations Management, Harvard Business School mili@hbs.edu, https://www.michaellz.com/;
References
Imai and Li (2022). “Statistical Inference for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Discovered by Generic Machine Learning in Randomized Experiments”,
Examples
T = c(1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0)
tau = c(0,0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4,0.5,0.6,0.7)
Y = c(4,5,0,2,4,1,-4,3)
consisttestlist <- consist.test(T,tau,Y,ngates=5)
consisttestlist$stat
consisttestlist$pval