synth.tab: Creates Tables that Summarize Results of Synthetic Control Group Method

Description

This function is called after dataprep and synth in order to create tables summarizing the results of the run of the synthetic control method. The result tables can be latexed directly.

Usage

synth.tab(synth.res    = NA,
          dataprep.res = NA,
          round.digit  = 3)

Arguments

synth.res

The list resulting from the call to synth.

dataprep.res

The list resulting from the call to dataprep.

round.digit

Integer for rounding in tables.

Value

tab.vThe matrix that contains the table of V-weights and respective variable names.
tab.wThe matrix that contains the table of W-weights and respective unit numbers and possibly names.
tab.lossThe matrix that contains the table of W-loss and V-loss

References

Abadie, A. and Gardeazabal, J. (2003) Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case Study of the Basque Country American Economic Review 93 (1) 113--132 http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.aabadie.academic.ksg/ecc.pdf Abadie, A., Diamond, A., Hainmueller, J. (2007) Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program NBER Technical Working Paper no 335 http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~jhainm/

Examples

Run this code

##---- Should be DIRECTLY executable !! ----
##-- ==>  Define data, use random,
##--    or do  help(data=index)  for the standard data sets.

## The function is currently defined as