LPDENSITY

The lpdensity package provides Python, R and Stata implementations of bandwidth selection, point estimation and inference procedures for local polynomial distribution and density methods.

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation through grant SES-1459931, SES-1459967, SES-1947805 and SES-1947662.

Website

https://nppackages.github.io

Queries and Requests

Please email: [email protected]

Python Implementation

To install/update in Python type:

pip install lpdensity

• Help: Python Manual, PyPi repository.

• Replication: py-script.

R Implementation

To install/update in R type:

install.packages('lpdensity')

• Help: R Manual, CRAN repository.

• Replication: R-script.

Stata Implementation

To install/update in Stata type:

net install lpdensity, from(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nppackages/lpdensity/master/stata) replace

• Help: lpdensity, lpbwdensity.

• Replication: do-file.

References

Software and Implementation

• Cattaneo, Jansson and Ma (2022): lpdensity: Local Polynomial Density Estimation and Inference.
  Journal of Statistical Software 101(2): 1-25.

Technical and Methodological

• Cattaneo, Jansson and Ma (2020): Simple Local Polynomial Density Estimators.
  Journal of the American Statistical Association 115(531): 1449-1455.
  Supplemental appendix.

• Cattaneo, Jansson and Ma (2022): Local Regression Distribution Estimators.
  Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming.
  Supplemental Appendix.