Methoden vergleichen

	Maschinelles Lernen-gestützte Propensity-Score-Matching	Propensity Score Weighting (PSW / IPW)
Fachgebiet	Kausale Inferenz	Kausale Inferenz
Familie	Regression model	Regression model
Entstehungsjahr	2004	1983 (propensity score); 2003 (efficient IPW estimator)
Urheber	McCaffrey, Ridgeway & Morral (2004); Westreich, Lessler & Funk (2010)	Rosenbaum & Rubin (propensity score); Hirano, Imbens & Ridder (efficient weighting)
Typ	Causal inference / matching	Causal inference / reweighting
Wegweisende Quelle	McCaffrey, D. F., Ridgeway, G., & Morral, A. R. (2004). Propensity score estimation with boosted regression for evaluating causal effects in observational studies. Psychological Methods, 9(4), 403-425.	Rosenbaum, P. R., & Rubin, D. B. (1983). The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects. Biometrika, 70(1), 41-55.
Aliasnamen	ML-PSM, boosted propensity score matching, ML-augmented PSM, nonparametric propensity score matching	PSW, inverse probability weighting, IPW, propensity-based weighting
Verwandt	6	6
Zusammenfassung	Machine learning-augmented propensity score matching (ML-PSM) replaces the traditional logistic regression used to estimate propensity scores with flexible machine learning algorithms — such as gradient boosted trees, random forests, or LASSO — to better capture complex, nonlinear relationships among covariates. The resulting richer propensity scores improve covariate balance and reduce bias in the estimated average treatment effect on the treated (ATT).	Propensity score weighting is a causal-inference method that reweights observations so that the covariate distributions of treated and untreated units look exchangeable, enabling unbiased estimation of average treatment effects from observational data. Each unit receives a weight that is the inverse of its probability of receiving the treatment it actually received — a strategy formalised by Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983) and given its efficient semiparametric form by Hirano, Imbens and Ridder (2003).