WhatIF R Software for Evaluating Counterfactuals 英文论文文献.docVIP

JournalofStatisticalSoftware January2006,Volume15,Issue4. / WhatIf: R Software for Evaluating Counterfactuals Heather Stoll UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara Gary King HarvardUniversity Langche Zeng UniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego Abstract WhatIf is an R package that implements the methods for evaluating counterfactuals introduced in King and Zeng (2006a) and King and Zeng (2006b). It o?ers easy-to-use techniquesforassessingacounterfactual’smodel dependence withouthavingtoconduct sensitivity testing over speci?ed classes of models. These same methods can be used to approximatethecommonsu