Package: bsynth 1.0

Ignacio Martinez

bsynth: Bayesian Synthetic Control

Implements the Bayesian Synthetic Control method for causal inference in comparative case studies. This package provides tools for estimating treatment effects in settings with a single treated unit and multiple control units, allowing for uncertainty quantification and flexible modeling of time-varying effects. The methodology is based on the paper by Vives and Martinez (2022) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2206.01779>.

Authors:Ignacio Martinez [aut, cre], Jaume [aut]

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# Install 'bsynth' in R:

install.packages('bsynth', repos = c('https://google.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/google/bsynth/issues

Uses libs:

c++– GNU Standard C++ Library v3

On CRAN:

cpp

5.64 score 22 stars 4 scripts 218 downloads 4 exports 78 dependencies

Last updated from:18524d96a9. Checks:11 NOTE, 1 OK, 1 FAIL. Indexed: yes.

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Exports:%>%bayesianFactor bayesianSynth time_tiles

Dependencies:abind backports base64enc BH bslib cachem callr checkmate cli cpp11 cubelyr desc digest distributional dplyr evaluate farver fastmap fontawesome fs generics ggplot2 ggridges glue gridExtra gtable highr htmltools htmlwidgets inline isoband jquerylib jsonlite knitr labeling lifecycle loo magrittr matrixStats memoise mime numDeriv pillar pkgbuild pkgconfig posterior processx ps purrr QuickJSR R6 rappdirs RColorBrewer Rcpp RcppEigen RcppParallel rlang rmarkdown rstan rstantools S7 sass scales StanHeaders stringi stringr tensorA tibble tidyr tidyselect tinytex utf8 vctrs viridisLite vizdraws withr xfun yaml

Multiple Treated

Rendered frommultiple_treated.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon May 12 2026.

Last update: 2024-06-27
Started: 2021-08-16

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Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
The 'bsynth' package.	bsynth-package bsynth
Get Parameter Estimates in Long Format	.get_par_long
Returns Data Frame Ready for Plotting with Confidence Intervals	.get_plot_df
Prepare Data Frame for Plotting with Multiple Treated Units	.get_plot_df2
Get Synthetic Draws in Tidy Format for Single Treated Unit	.get_synth_draws
Get Synthetic Draws in Tidy Format for Single Treated Unit (Predictor Match Model)	.get_synth_draws_predictor_match
Get Synthetic Draws in Tidy Format for Multiple Treated Units (3D Array)	.get_synth_draws3d
Convert Data to Wide Format	.makeWide
Plot Treatment Effect Estimate	.plot_tau
Create a Bayesian Synthetic Control Object Using Panel Data	bayesianFactor
Create a Bayesian Synthetic Control Object Using Panel Data	bayesianSynth
Time Tiles Plot of Intervention Impact	time_tiles