augsynth: Augmented Synthetic Control Method

Overview

This package implements the Augmented Synthetic Control Method (ASCM).

For a more detailed description of the main functionality check out:

• the vignette for simultaneous adoption
• the vignette for staggered adoption

Installation

To install this package, first ensure that devtools is installed with

install.packages("devtools")

then install the package from GitHub with

devtools::install_github("ebenmichael/augsynth")

Basic usage

To get started, use a panel dataset with an outcome measure, a treatment indicator, a unit indicator, a time variable, and an intervention time t_int. Then run

asyn <- augsynth(outcome ~ trt, unit, time, t_int, data)