Methoden vergleichen

	Policy Evaluation Entropy Balancing	Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting (IPW / IPTW)
Fachgebiet	Kausale Inferenz	Kausale Inferenz
Familie	Regression model	Regression model
Entstehungsjahr	2012	2000
Urheber	Jens Hainmueller	Robins, Hernán & Brumback
Typ	Preprocessing / reweighting estimator	Causal inference weighting estimator
Wegweisende Quelle	Hainmueller, J. (2012). Entropy Balancing for Causal Effects: A Multivariate Reweighting Method to Produce Balanced Samples in Observational Studies. Political Analysis, 20(1), 25-46.	Robins, J. M., Hernán, M. A., & Brumback, B. (2000). Marginal Structural Models and Causal Inference in Epidemiology. Epidemiology, 11(5), 550-560.
Aliasnamen	Entropy Balancing, EB Weighting, Maximum-Entropy Reweighting, Hainmueller Balancing	IPW, IPTW, inverse probability of treatment weighting, marginal structural model weighting
Verwandt	4	5
Zusammenfassung	Entropy balancing is a maximum-entropy reweighting method that assigns weights to control-group units so that their weighted covariate moments exactly match those of the treated group. Introduced by Hainmueller (2012), it provides exact balance on specified moments without iterative propensity-score trimming, making it a powerful preprocessing tool for causal policy evaluation in observational studies.	Inverse Probability Weighting is a causal-inference method that assigns each observation a weight equal to the inverse of its probability of receiving the treatment it actually received. Introduced by Robins, Hernán and Brumback (2000) for marginal structural models, it builds a pseudo-population in which treatment is independent of measured confounders, balancing selection bias.