StatsOtter Causal inference workflows

@kosuke_imai

Harvard University · Government & Statistics Website ↗

⚠️ Unofficial community showcase of Prof. Kosuke Imai's packages (mediation, panel matching, measurement). Not affiliated — all credit to the original authors; this summarizes public docs.

8 workflows

Workflows

Sensitive questions, protected answers (rr)

Regression for randomized-response surveys — recover predictors of a sensitive behavior while every respondent's individual answer stays private.

@kosuke_imai 11 996 views

Who responds to treatment? (FindIt)

Find which subgroups respond to a treatment and estimate causal interactions in factorial / conjoint experiments via a LASSO-regularized search.

@kosuke_imai 11 960 views

Design & analyze randomized experiments (experiment)

Randomize treatment (complete, blocked, cluster) and estimate average effects with design-based variance — including cluster-randomized trials.

@kosuke_imai 11 1k views

Quantitative Social Science: data and code (qss)

The companion R package for Imai's textbook Quantitative Social Science, bundling every dataset and chapter vignette for hands-on data-analysis teaching.

@kosuke_imai 11 795 views

Analyzing list / item-count experiments (list)

Multivariate regression for list (item-count) experiments, recovering the prevalence and predictors of a sensitive attitude without asking about it directly.

@kosuke_imai 11 839 views

Predicting race/ethnicity from name and geography (wru)

"Who Are You?" predicts an individual's probable race/ethnicity from surname, first/middle name, and geolocation using Bayesian (BISG) updating.

@kosuke_imai 11 900 views
Unconfounded

Matching for panel / time-series cross-sectional data (PanelMatch)

Matches treated unit-periods to controls with identical recent treatment histories, then applies a difference-in-differences estimator for TSCS data.

@kosuke_imai 11 830 views
Mediation

Causal mediation analysis (mediation)

Decomposes a treatment effect into the part transmitted through a mediator (ACME) and the rest (direct effect), with sensitivity analysis.

@kosuke_imai 11 963 views