rddensity

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Authors Matias D. Cattaneo, Michael Jansson, Xinwei Ma

Last update 21 May 2026

Copyright license GNU General Public License, version 3.0

Software version identifier 2.4, 0.1, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2, 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, PACKAGES.rds, 2.6, 3.0

Official website https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rddensity/index.html

Source code repository https://github.com/cran/rddensity

Description

Density discontinuity testing (a.k.a. manipulation testing) is commonly employed in regression discontinuity designs and other program evaluation settings to detect perfect self-selection (manipulation) around a cutoff where treatment/policy assignment changes. This package implements manipulation testing procedures using local polynomial density estimators: rddensity() constructs test statistics and p-values given a prespecified cutoff, rdbwdensity() performs data-driven bandwidth selection, and rdplotdensity() constructs density plots.

Cited in

(13)

• Impact evaluation in a multi-input multi-output setting: evidence on the effect of additional resources for schools
• rdrobust
• ebalance
• ebal
• Simple local polynomial density estimators
• estout
• lpdensity
• binsreg
• rdlocrand
• rdpower
• RWOLF
• rdbwselect
• NonlinearRDD

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