The package ExtremeBounds performs extreme bounds analysis (EBA), a global sensitivity test that examines the robustness of the association between a dependent variable and a variety of possible determinants. It supports a demanding version of EBA, proposed by Leamer (1985), that focuses on the upper and lower extreme bounds of regression estimates, as well as a more flexible version proposed by Sala-i-Martin (1997). Sala-i-Martin's EBA considers the entire distribution of regression coefficients. For Sala-i-Martin's version of extreme bounds analysis, the package ExtremeBounds estimates results for both the normal model (in which regression coefficients are assumed to be normally distributed across models) and the generic model (where no such assumption is made).
The most important function is eba, which performs the extreme bounds analysis and stores the results in an object of class "eba". This object can then be passed on to the print.eba and hist.eba functions to obtain, respectively, a printed summary of EBA results and a set of histograms that illustrate the EBA results graphically.
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Please cite as:
Hlavac, Marek (2015). ExtremeBounds: Extreme Bounds Analysis in R.
R package version 0.1.5.1. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ExtremeBounds
Author(s)
Marek Hlavac < hlavac at fas.harvard.edu >
Harvard University, Political Economy and Government
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