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Re: st: ddens option for McCrary density test in Nichols' rd command
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: ddens option for McCrary density test in Nichols' rd command
Date
Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:33:26 +0100
The help file for -rd- (SSC; please explain provenance!!!) says
ddens requests a computation of a discontinuity in the density of Z. This is
computed in a relatively ad hoc way, and should be redone using McCrary's
test described at http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~jmccrary/DCdensity/.
I read that as clearly stating that this option does not implement
McCrary's test.
Nick
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Jen Zhen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalist members,
>
> when I use the -ddens- option with Austin Nichols' -rd- command, I
> just get the same main estimates output as without that option,
> instead of a computation of McCrary's density test. Is it possible
> that this option is not working as it should, or is there anything
> particular I need to take into account when using this?
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