build_sim_dataset function

build_sim_dataset

A function for building simulated data

build_sim_dataset(sp_list, panel = TRUE)

Arguments

• sp_list: A list of simulation parameters. See reset.sim to generate some default values for parameters
• panel: whether to construct panel data (the default) or repeated cross sections data

Returns

a data.frame with the following columns

• G observations group
• X value of covariate
• id observation's id
• cluster observation's cluster (by construction there is no within-cluster correlation)
• period time period for current observation
• Y outcome
• treat whether or not this unit is ever treated