download_lalonde_nsw¶
Downloading the Lalonde NSW dataset.
Data description¶
The dataset contains the treated and control units from the male sub-sample from the National Supported Work Demonstration as used by Lalonde in his paper.
| Features | 7 |
| Treatment | 2 |
| Samples total | 722 |
Features description¶
- treat - an indicator variable for treatment status.
- age - age in years.
- educ - years of schooling.
- black - indicator variable for blacks.
- hisp - indicator variable for Hispanics.
- married - indicator variable for martial status.
- nodegr - indicator variable for high school diploma.
- re75 - real earnings in 1975.
- re78 - real earnings in 1978.
More information about dataset you can find here.
| Parameters | data_home: str
Specify another download and cache folder for the dataset.
By default the dataset will be stored in the data folder in the same folder.
control_data_url: str
The URL to file with data of the control group.
treated_data_url: str
The URL to file with data of the treated group.
separator: str
The separator which used in the data files.
column_names: list
List of column names of the dataset.
column_types: dict
List of types for columns of the dataset.
random_state: int
The random seed.
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| Returns | None |
Examples¶
from pyuplift.datasets import download_lalonde_nsw
download_lalonde_nsw()