Binscatter regressions

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Abstract

In this article, we introduce the package binsreg, which implements the binscatter methods developed by Cattaneo et al. (2024a, arXiv:2407.15276 [stat.EM]; 2024b, American Economic Review 114: 1488–1514). The package comprises seven commands: binsreg, binslogit, binsprobit, binsqreg, binstest binspwc, and binsregselect. The first four commands implement binscatter plotting, point estimation, and uncertainty quantification (confidence intervals and confidence bands) for least-squares linear binscatter regression (binsreg) and for nonlinear binscatter regression (binslogit for logit regression, binsprobit for. probit regression, and binsqreg for quantile regression). The next two commands focus on pointwise and uniform inference: binstest implements hypothesis testing procedures for parametric specifications and for nonparametric shape restrictions of the unknown regression function, while binspwc implements multigroup pairwise statistical comparisons. The last command, binsregselect, implements. data-driven number-of-bins selectors. The commands offer binned scatterplots and allow for covariate adjustment, weighting, clustering, and multisample analysis, which is useful when studying treatment-effect heterogeneity in randomizec and observational studies, among many other features.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3-50
Number of pages48
JournalStata Journal
Volume25
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2025

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Mathematics (miscellaneous)

Keywords

  • B-splines
  • binned scatterplot
  • binscatter
  • binslogit
  • binsprobit
  • binspwc
  • binsqreg
  • binsreg
  • binsregselect
  • binstest
  • confidence bands
  • nonparametrics
  • partitioning estimators
  • semiparametrics
  • shape and specification testing
  • st0765
  • tuning parameter selection

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