WhatIf (version 1.5-10)

print.whatif: Print "whatif" Object

Description

Prints the information produced by the function whatif, an object of class "whatif", to the screen.

Usage

# S3 method for whatif
print(x, print.dist = FALSE, print.freq = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x

An object of class "whatif", the output of the function whatif.

print.dist

A Boolean; should the matrix of pairwise distances between each counterfactual and data point be printed to the screen, if it was returned? Default is FALSE.

print.freq

A Boolean; should the matrix of cumulative frequencies of distances for each counterfactual be printed to the screen? Default is FALSE.

...

Further arguments passed to and from other methods.

Value

A printout to the screen of the information contained in the whatif output object.

References

King, Gary and Langche Zeng. 2006. "The Dangers of Extreme Counterfactuals." Political Analysis 14 (2). Available from https://gking.harvard.edu.

King, Gary and Langche Zeng. 2007. "When Can History Be Our Guide? The Pitfalls of Counterfactual Inference." International Studies Quarterly 51 (March). Available from https://gking.harvard.edu.

See Also

whatif, plot.whatif, summary.whatif, print.summary.whatif

Examples

# NOT RUN {
##  Create example data sets and counterfactuals
my.cfact <- matrix(rnorm(3*5), ncol = 5)
my.data <- matrix(rnorm(100*5), ncol = 5)

##  Evaluate counterfactuals
my.result <- whatif(data = my.data, cfact = my.cfact, mc.cores = 1)

##  Print output object
print(my.result)
# }