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	Δυναμική Εξισορρόπηση Εντροπίας	Οριακό Δομικό Μοντέλο (Marginal Structural Model - MSM)
Πεδίο	Αιτιακή Συμπερασματολογία	Αιτιακή Συμπερασματολογία
Οικογένεια	Regression model	Regression model
Έτος προέλευσης	2012-2018	2000
Δημιουργός	Hainmueller (2012) for static entropy balancing; extended to dynamic settings by Blackwell and Glynn (2018) and subsequent methodologists	James M. Robins, Miguel A. Hernan, Babette Brumback
Τύπος	Causal inference / weighting estimator	Causal model / semiparametric weighting
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	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., Hernan, M. A., & Brumback, B. (2000). Marginal structural models and causal inference in epidemiology. Epidemiology, 11(5), 550-560.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	DEB, longitudinal entropy balancing, entropy balancing with time-varying treatment, sequential entropy balancing	MSM, MSM-IPTW, marginal structural Cox model, weighted structural model
Συναφείς	6	5
Σύνοψη	Dynamic Entropy Balancing extends the entropy balancing reweighting approach to settings with time-varying treatments in panel or longitudinal data. It constructs unit weights at each time period such that the covariate distributions of treated and comparison units are balanced on specified moments, adjusting sequentially for prior treatment history and time-varying confounders to estimate the causal effect of treatment sequences on outcomes.	A marginal structural model is a causal modeling framework designed to estimate the effect of a time-varying treatment in the presence of time-varying confounders that are themselves affected by prior treatment. By reweighting observations with inverse probability of treatment weights, MSMs create a pseudo-population in which confounding is eliminated, enabling unbiased estimation of causal treatment contrasts even when standard regression adjustments would fail.