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
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Config/pak/sysreqs: cmake libgmp3-dev make libgsl0-dev pkg-config
        libclang-dev
Repository: https://davidvandijcke.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-07-12 18:52:08 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/davidvandijcke/discos
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: ed2b3d948ed591ed2785e1d97acb567225432a60
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-12 19:53:12 UTC; root
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>