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synth.tab

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

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

Author(s)

Jens Hainmueller and Alexis Dimaond

References

Abadie, A., Diamond, A., Hainmueller, J. (2014). Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method. American Journal of Political Science Forthcoming 2014.

Synthetic : An R Package for Synthetic Control Methods in Comparative Case Studies. Journal of Statistical Software 42 (13) 1–17.

Abadie, A., Diamond, A., Hainmueller, J. (2011). Synth: An R Package for Synthetic Control Methods in Comparative Case Studies. Journal of Statistical Software 42 (13) 1–17.

Abadie A, Diamond A, Hainmueller J (2010). Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program. Journal of the American Statistical Association 105 (490) 493–505.

Abadie, A. and Gardeazabal, J. (2003) Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case Study of the Basque Country American Economic Review 93 (1) 113–132.