Package: DiSCos
Title: Distributional Synthetic Controls Estimation
Version: 0.1.4
Authors@R: 
    c(person("David", "Van Dijcke", , "dvdijcke@umich.edu", role = c("aut", "cre"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5825-3447")),
    person("Florian", "Gunsilius", , "ffg@umich.edu", role = c("aut"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-1698-6324")),
    person("Siyun", "He", , "siyunhe@umich.edu", role = c("aut"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4201-0912"))
    )
Description: The method of synthetic controls is a widely-adopted tool for evaluating causal effects of policy changes in settings with observational data. In many settings where it is applicable, researchers want to identify causal effects of policy changes on a treated unit at an aggregate level while having access to data at a finer granularity. This package implements a simple extension of the synthetic controls estimator, developed in Gunsilius (2023) <doi:10.3982/ECTA18260>, that takes advantage of this additional structure and provides nonparametric estimates of the heterogeneity within the aggregate unit. The idea is to replicate the quantile function associated with the treated unit by a weighted average of quantile functions of the control units. The package contains tools for aggregating and plotting the resulting distributional estimates, as well as for carrying out inference on them. 
License: MIT + file LICENSE
BugReports: https://github.com/Davidvandijcke/DiSCos/issues
URL: http://www.davidvandijcke.com/DiSCos/,
        https://github.com/Davidvandijcke/DiSCos
LazyData: TRUE
Imports: CVXR, pracma, Rdpack, parallel, evmix, utils, extremeStat,
        MASS
Depends: data.table, R (>= 2.10), ggplot2
RdMacros: Rdpack
Suggests: haven, latex2exp, knitr, rmarkdown, maps, testthat (>=
        3.0.0), quadprog
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-12 18:51:25 UTC; davidvandijcke
Author: David Van Dijcke [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5825-3447>),
  Florian Gunsilius [aut] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1698-6324>),
  Siyun He [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4201-0912>)
Maintainer: David Van Dijcke <dvdijcke@umich.edu>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-07-12 20:40:02 UTC
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