Dear Society members and friends,
It is my pleasure to announce that Matias D. Cattaneo (Michigan), Sebastian
Calonico, (University of Miami), Max H. Farrell (Chicago), Michael Jansson
(Berkeley), Xinwei Ma (Michigan), Rocio Titiunik (Michigan) and Gonzalo
Vazquez-Bare (Michigan) are the winners of this year's Best Statistical
Software Award for their work on a group of open source packages (rdrobust,
rdlocrand, rddensity, rdpower) for regression discontinuity problems,
written for both R and Stata. Those packages are described and listed
here: https://sites.google.com/site/rdpackages/.. The Best Statistical
Software Award recognizes individuals for developing statistical software
that makes a significant research contribution. The award will be made at
our business meeting on Friday, September 1st at 6:30 during APSA meetings
in in Hilton Union Square, Golden Gate 5. My thanks to the selection
committee of Arthur Spirling (NYU, Chair), Justin Esarey (Rice) and Jamie
Monogan (Georgia) for their work. The committee citation follows.
Best,
Jeff
CITATION:
The centrality of Regression Discontinuity Designs (RDD) to the causal
inference goals of social science is not in doubt: however, the practical
implementation of such approaches can be very challenging, involving
technical knowledge of bandwidth selection, randomization methods,
appropriate interval estimation and so on. This elegantly written, NSF
supported suite of software allows researchers to focus on the theory and
substance of their problem, while relieving them of otherwise complicated
programming. The committee was especially impressed with the options
available for systematic neighborhood selection---thus greatly decreasing
the possibility of arbitrary 'researcher degrees of freedom' in those
choices. Along with its other features, which include extremely helpful
plotting routines, this product will aid replication and communication for
applied researchers. The software is open-source in its R version, and is
also implemented in the proprietary package, Stata: we therefore anticipate
that it will be widely-used, extended and improved upon by others. The
committee is unanimous: the RD packages are a worthy winner.
--
Jeffrey B. Lewis
Professor, Department of Political Science
Director, Center for American Politics and Public Policy
University of California, Los Angeles
BOX 951472, 4289A Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472
President
The Society for Political Methodology
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Jeffrey B. Lewis
Professor, Department of Political Science
Director, Center for American Politics and Public Policy
University of California, Los Angeles
BOX 951472, 4289A Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472
President
The Society for Political Methodology
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