From c56403687cc7a35021c6273a62d404a9441d260f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bernardo Dionisi <60005455+bernardodionisi@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:07:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

performance note
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 README.md | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ requires Python >= 3.8
 the ATTgt class implements the estimation procedures suggested by [Callaway and Sant'Anna (2021)
 ](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304407620303948), [Sant'Anna and Zhao 
 (2020)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304407620301901) and the 
-multi-valued treatement case discussed in [Callaway, Goodman-Bacon & Sant'Anna (2021)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02637)
+multi-valued treatment case discussed in [Callaway, Goodman-Bacon & Sant'Anna (2021)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02637)
 
 ```python
 from differences import ATTgt, simulate_data
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ att_gt.aggregate('event')
 *differences* ATTgt benefitted substantially from the original authors' R packages: Callaway & Sant'Anna's [did](https://github.com/bcallaway11/did) and Sant'Anna and 
 Zhao's [DRDID](https://github.com/pedrohcgs/DRDID)
 
+> **_NOTE:_**  Important note on permormance ! Currently, the ATTgt class allows users to pass string entity identifiers, as in the example with `df = simulate_data()` above, where the first index containing the entity identifiers is a string datatype. Note that the performance of the ATT computation (when calling `.fit()`) would improve greatly if you cast the entities to integers before initializing ATTgt. You can easily do that just by using pandas category codes.
+
 ### TWFE
 
 ```python