Figures & data
Fig. 1 The electricity consumption (kWh) during the pretreatment month for the 54 households included in the experiment.
![Fig. 1 The electricity consumption (kWh) during the pretreatment month for the 54 households included in the experiment.](/cms/asset/a92befd1-1c5b-4ae8-924e-c804c80c9694/ucgs_a_1753531_f0001_c.jpg)
Fig. 2 The cumulative distribution function for the Mahalanobis distance () of the 800th order statistic in the random sample of allocations for numbers of allocations between 100,000 and 1,000,000.
![Fig. 2 The cumulative distribution function for the Mahalanobis distance (df=3) of the 800th order statistic in the random sample of allocations for numbers of allocations between 100,000 and 1,000,000.](/cms/asset/9c69c3fb-2d37-45b6-9c26-48cbad5dfa07/ucgs_a_1753531_f0002_c.jpg)
Fig. 3 Relative power as compared to complete randomization for Mahalanobis distance (M) and ranked p-values (R) rerandomization designs. The left and right figures display the results for DGPs A and B, respectively.
![Fig. 3 Relative power as compared to complete randomization for Mahalanobis distance (M) and ranked p-values (R) rerandomization designs. The left and right figures display the results for DGPs A and B, respectively.](/cms/asset/a7f0d912-52e4-4c33-95b8-15fd350f9456/ucgs_a_1753531_f0003_c.jpg)
Table 1 Relative variance change in the covariates and the effect estimate as compared to complete randomization (EquationEquations (15)(15)
(15) and Equation(16)
(16)
(16) ) for Mahalanobis distance (M) and ranked p-values (R) rerandomization designs.
Fig. 4 Relative power as compared to complete randomization for Mahalanobis distance (M) and ranked p-values (R) rerandomization designs. The left and right panels display the results including four (K = 4) and eleven (K = 11) covariates, respectively.
![Fig. 4 Relative power as compared to complete randomization for Mahalanobis distance (M) and ranked p-values (R) rerandomization designs. The left and right panels display the results including four (K = 4) and eleven (K = 11) covariates, respectively.](/cms/asset/8ae6d492-9117-489e-9665-1da8913eb8af/ucgs_a_1753531_f0004_c.jpg)
Table 2 Relative change in variance of the covariates and in the effect estimate as compared to complete randomization (EquationEquations (15)(15)
(15) and Equation(16)
(16)
(16) ) for Mahalanobis distance (M) and ranked p-values (R) rerandomization designs.
Table 3 Variance reduction of the covariates and in the effect estimate as compared to complete randomization (EquationEquations (15)(15)
(15) and Equation(16)
(16)
(16) ) for the ranked p-values (R) rerandomization designs.
Fig. 5 Relative power as compared to complete randomization for the ranked p-values (R) rerandomization designs for T = 10. The left panel and right panel display the results from the Homogenous and the heterogeneous DGPs, respectively.
![Fig. 5 Relative power as compared to complete randomization for the ranked p-values (R) rerandomization designs for T = 10. The left panel and right panel display the results from the Homogenous and the heterogeneous DGPs, respectively.](/cms/asset/13fe0d8a-5c02-4597-9aa5-8cf8833b05b4/ucgs_a_1753531_f0005_c.jpg)
Fig. 6 Relative power as compared to complete randomization the ranked p-values (R) rerandomization designs with forecast-based and LASSO estimated weights, respectively, for T = 100. The left panel and right panel display the results from the homogenous and the heterogeneous DGP’s, respectively.
![Fig. 6 Relative power as compared to complete randomization the ranked p-values (R) rerandomization designs with forecast-based and LASSO estimated weights, respectively, for T = 100. The left panel and right panel display the results from the homogenous and the heterogeneous DGP’s, respectively.](/cms/asset/780ae446-ab08-40ff-b6a6-5a4ca8dd86e5/ucgs_a_1753531_f0006_c.jpg)
Table 4 Relative change in variance in the estimated treatment effect as compared to complete randomization (EquationEquations (15)(15)
(15) and Equation(16)
(16)
(16) ) for the ranked p-values (R) rerandomization designs with forecast-based and LASSO estimated weights, respectively.
Fig. 7 The electricity consumption (kWh) for the households with the largest (max) and smallest (min) maximum consumption, mean consumption, and standard deviation in their consumption, respectively.
![Fig. 7 The electricity consumption (kWh) for the households with the largest (max) and smallest (min) maximum consumption, mean consumption, and standard deviation in their consumption, respectively.](/cms/asset/82c11152-ab6c-48b8-b30c-bd76af37762b/ucgs_a_1753531_f0007_c.jpg)
Fig. 8 The relative probability as compared to complete randomization of randomly selecting an allocation that gives a significant result for two different rerandomization strategies given different hypothesized treatment effects.
![Fig. 8 The relative probability as compared to complete randomization of randomly selecting an allocation that gives a significant result for two different rerandomization strategies given different hypothesized treatment effects.](/cms/asset/76823ecd-fdab-4937-9ea6-9d026cc0ab04/ucgs_a_1753531_f0008_c.jpg)
Table 5 Relative variance change in the effect estimates across the possible allocation using and
as compared to complete randomization (EquationEquation (16)
(16)
(16) ).