Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Χωρική Εξισορρόπηση Εντροπίας	Χωρική Στάθμιση Αντίστροφης Πιθανότητας (Spatial IPW)
Πεδίο	Αιτιακή Συμπερασματολογία	Αιτιακή Συμπερασματολογία
Οικογένεια	Regression model	Regression model
Έτος προέλευσης	2010s	2010s
Δημιουργός	Extension of Hainmueller (2012) entropy balancing to spatial settings; spatial adaptations developed in geographic epidemiology and spatial econometrics literature	Extension of Rosenbaum & Rubin (1983) IPW to spatial settings; formal treatment by Papadogeorgou et al. (2019)
Τύπος	Quasi-experimental reweighting	Quasi-experimental / causal inference
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.	Hirano, K., Imbens, G. W., & Ridder, G. (2003). Efficient Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Using the Estimated Propensity Score. Econometrica, 71(4), 1161-1189.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	spatial EB, geographically-weighted entropy balancing, spatial reweighting	Spatial IPW, Geographic IPW, Spatially-weighted IPW, SIPW
Συναφείς	6	6
Σύνοψη	Spatial entropy balancing extends standard entropy balancing to observational settings where units are embedded in geographic space, incorporating spatial structure into the reweighting process so that balance is achieved while respecting spatial proximity, clustering, or spillover dependencies between units.	Spatial Inverse Probability Weighting extends the classical IPW estimator to settings where units are geo-referenced and spatial location is a confounding dimension. By incorporating geographic coordinates or spatial proximity into the propensity score model, it reweights the observed sample so that treatment and control groups are balanced not only on measured covariates but also on spatial structure, enabling credible causal inference from spatially indexed observational data.