rdpower: Power, Sample Size, and Minimum Detectable Effect Calculations for RD Designs

The regression discontinuity (RD) design is a popular quasi-experimental design for causal inference and policy evaluation. The 'rdpower' package provides tools to perform power, sample size, and minimum detectable effect calculations in RD designs: rdpower() calculates the power of an RD design, rdsampsi() calculates the required sample size to achieve a desired power, and rdmde() calculates minimum detectable effects. See Cattaneo, Titiunik and Vazquez-Bare (2019) <https://rdpackages.github.io/references/Cattaneo-Titiunik-VazquezBare_2019_Stata.pdf> for further methodological details.

Version:	3.0
Depends:	R (≥ 3.6.0)
Imports:	rdrobust (≥ 4.0.0)
Published:	2026-05-17
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.rdpower
Author:	Matias D. Cattaneo [aut, cre], Rocio Titiunik [aut], Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare [aut]
Maintainer:	Matias D. Cattaneo <matias.d.cattaneo at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/rdpackages/rdpower/issues
License:	GPL-3
URL:	https://github.com/rdpackages/rdpower
NeedsCompilation:	no
In views:	Econometrics
CRAN checks:	rdpower results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

rdpower.html , rdpower.pdf

Downloads:

Package source:	rdpower_3.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: rdpower_2.3.zip, r-release: rdpower_3.0.zip, r-oldrel: rdpower_2.3.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): rdpower_3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): rdpower_3.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): rdpower_3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rdpower_3.0.tgz
Old sources:	rdpower archive

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