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R package for Bayesian Synthetic Control Models (Helske 2026, in-preparation). Key features: * Time-varying covariates, optionally with time-varying coefficients as splines. * Multiple treated units, with or without staggered adoption. * Weakly informative default priors and user-defined priors are supported. * Computationally and statistically efficient posterior sampling via pre-compiled Stan models. * Convenient methods for extracting posterior summaries or draws of treatment effects, synthetic control series, donor weights, RMSE, Bayesian R^2, and other quantities of interest. * Model evaluation and comparison using leave-one-out and leave-future-out cross-validation, leave-donor(s)-out, in-time and in-space placebos.
You can install the development version of bscm as
remotes::install_github("helske/bscm")library(bscm)
set.seed(3546)
fit <- bscm(
y ~ x, data = single_treated,
treatment = "treatment", time = "time", unit = "id"
)Basic summary of the estimated model:
fit
Call:
bscm(formula = y ~ x, data = single_treated, treatment = "treatment",
time = "time", unit = "id")
Bayesian synthetic control model y ~ x
Treated unit: 1
Number of donors: 50
Number of time periods (pre + post): 40 + 10
MCMC sampling using 4 chains, each with 2500 + 2500 iterations took 6.82 seconds for the slowest chain
MCMC diagnostics indicate no issues. summary(fit)
variable mean sd q2.5 q97.5 rhat ess_bulk ess_tail mcse_mean
1 Intercept 0.506 0.370 -0.223 1.24 1.00 11183. 9289. 0.00350
2 beta_x 1.01 0.0703 0.874 1.15 1.00 10267. 7509. 0.000695
3 Residual SD 0.781 0.112 0.595 1.03 1.00 8848. 8223. 0.00120
4 Bayesian R2 0.988 0.00352 0.979 0.993 1.00 8757. 8100. 0.0000384
5 Effective number of donors 23.0 3.70 15.2 29.8 1.00 6816. 8774. 0.0448
6 Average pre-treatment effect -0.00158 0.175 -0.352 0.339 1.00 10068. 8911. 0.00175
7 Average post-treatment effect 6.57 0.331 5.94 7.24 1.00 10120. 9078. 0.00329
8 Pre-treatment RMSE 1.08 0.152 0.821 1.41 1.00 8384. 8599. 0.00167
9 Post-treatment RMSE 7.61 0.332 6.99 8.29 1.00 9860. 9234. 0.00335 And default visualization:
plot(fit)
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They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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