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About mlsynth
A practitioner’s decision tree
Replications
References

Observational: canonical workhorses

Vanilla Synthetic Control (VanillaSC)
Two-Step Synthetic Control
Forward Difference-in-Differences (FDID)

Observational: decomposition-first

Synthetic Business Cycle (SBC)
Harmonic Synthetic Control (HSC)

Observational: generalised estimand / treatment / unit

Synthetic Control with Multiple Outcomes (SCMO)
Continuous-Treatment Synthetic Control (CTSC)
Distributional Synthetic Control (DSC)
Synthetic Interventions (SI)
MicroSynth (User-Level Balancing SC)

Observational: convex-hull relaxation

Imperfect Synthetic Controls (ISCM)
Nonlinear Synthetic Control (NSC)

Observational: No Donors

Synthetic Historical Control (SHC)

Observational: high-dimensional donors

Bayesian Synthetic Control with a Soft Simplex Constraint (BVS-SS)
Cluster Synthetic Controls (CLUSTERSC)
Multi-Level Synthetic Control (mlSC)
Forward-Selected Synthetic Control (FSCM)
Matching and Synthetic Control (MASC)
Multivariate Square-root Lasso Synthetic Control (MSQRT)
Sparse Synthetic Control (SparseSC)
Panel Data Approach (PDA)
Relaxed / Penalized Synthetic Control (RESCM)

Observational: time-aware and factor models

Time-Aware Synthetic Control (TASC)
Factor Model Approach (FMA)
Dynamic Synthetic Control for Auto-Regressive processes (DSCAR)

Observational: staggered adoption

Synthetic Difference-in-Differences (SDID)
Sequential Synthetic Difference-in-Differences (Sequential SDiD)
Partially Pooled SCM (PPSCM)
Staggered Synthetic Control (SSC)

Observational: spillover-aware

Spatial Synthetic Difference-in-Differences (SpSyDiD)
Spillover-Aware Synthetic Control (SPILLSYNTH)
Spillover-Detecting Synthetic Control (SPOTSYNTH)

Observational: missing data

Matrix Completion with Nuclear Norm Minimization (MCNNM)
Synthetic Nearest Neighbors / Causal Matrix Completion (SNN)
Robust Matrix estimation with Side Information (RMSI)

Observational: endogenous treatment

Synthetic IV
Proximal Inference Synthetic Control (PROXIMAL)

Experimental design

Lexicographic Synthetic Control (LEXSCM)
Synthetic Controls for Experimental Design (MAREX)
Synthetic Design (SYNDES)
Parallel-Trends Supergeo Design (PANGEO)
Synthetic Principal Component Design (SPCD)
Modified Unbiased Synthetic Control

Utilities and internals

Data Utilities
Helper Utilities

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By Jared Greathouse

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