Description
Local Polynomial Density Estimation and Inference.
Description
Implements local polynomial distribution and density methods for point estimation, inference and bandwidth selection, documented in Cattaneo, Jansson and Ma (2020) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2019.1635480>, Cattaneo, Jansson and Ma (2022) <doi:10.18637/jss.v101.i02>, and Cattaneo, Jansson and Ma (2024) <doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2021.01.006>. lpdensity() constructs local polynomial distribution and density estimators with robust bias-corrected inference, and lpbwdensity() implements data-driven bandwidth selection.