xtife: Interactive Fixed Effects Estimator for Balanced Panel Data

Implements the interactive fixed effects ('IFE') panel estimator of Bai (2009) <doi:10.3982/ECTA6135> with analytical standard errors ('homoskedastic', 'HC1' robust, and cluster-robust by unit). Supports asymptotic bias correction for large panels (Bai 2009) and a dynamic extension for predetermined regressors (Moon and Weidner 2017 <doi:10.1017/S0266466615000328>). Includes information-criterion-based factor number selection (Bai and Ng 2002 <doi:10.1111/1468-0262.00273>). All computations use base R only with no external dependencies.

Version: 0.1.3
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: stats
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown
Published: 2026-04-21
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.xtife (may not be active yet)
Author: Binzhi Chen [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Binzhi Chen <Binzhi.Chen9 at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/Rickchen0910/xtife/issues
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/Rickchen0910/xtife
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Materials: README
CRAN checks: xtife results

Documentation:

Reference manual: xtife.html , xtife.pdf
Vignettes: Interactive Fixed Effects with xtife (source, R code)

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Package source: xtife_0.1.3.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: xtife_0.1.3.zip, r-oldrel: xtife_0.1.3.zip
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