How to get stata to spit out the average and standard error around that for each placebo set for each treatment period in synth_runner

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A tool to run a pool of synthetic controls, conduct inference, and produce visualizations.

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How to get stata to spit out the average and standard error around that for each placebo set for each treatment period in synth_runner #11

Closed syedishraque closed 7 years ago

syedishraque commented 7 years ago

bquistorff commented 7 years ago

I do not understand what you are asking for. Please elaborate.

syedishraque commented 7 years ago

sorry I should have made it clearer. synth_runner calculates placebo averages for each treatment period. how can I get the standard deviation of the distribution of the placebo estimates? To be precise how can I get STATA to display the standard error of the placebo effect distribution? I need placebo estimates' average and the standard error for those placebo estimates for my work.

Thanks, Syed

bquistorff commented 7 years ago

If you have one treatment period then you can get the placebo outcomes into the dataset (see the gen_vars option in the newest release) and then you can do any calculation you want on them. If there are multiple treatment periods then this your request is currently not possible.