OpenSourceEconomics / grmpy

Python package for the simulation and estimation of generalized Roy model
http://grmpy.readthedocs.io
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Order Column #143

Closed peisenha closed 6 years ago

peisenha commented 6 years ago

What is the colum Order in some of the tables in http://grmpy.readthedocs.io/en/develop/tutorial.html?

SeBecker commented 6 years ago

The order column contains the covariate labeling. At the moment you have to specify an integers for each coeffcient in the Treated, Untreated and Cost section. For instance if you assign the same value for one coefficient in the treated and one in the cost section, the program will recognize that the specified covariate impacts the treatment output and the associated costs. The specified covariate will not affect the untreated output as long as there is no coefficient in the untreated section that has the same order value.

In a nutshell the order column allows to specify covariates that only affect one section or specific combinations of sections. Just let me know if you don't want this feature to be integrated in the tutorial section.

peisenha commented 6 years ago

Thank you for the clarification. Please call it column instead and state somewhere in the tutorial that the integer in the column number refers to the column in the relevant dataset.

peisenha commented 6 years ago

@benediktkauf , gentle reminder

bekauf commented 6 years ago

Done