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Bayesian Coarsened Exact Matching
Bayesian Coarsened Exact Matching (Bayesian CEM) combines the coarsening-and-exact-matching framework of Iacus, King, and Porro with Bayesian posterior inference. Covariates are discretised into coarser bins so that treated and control units can be matched exactly within those bins, and Bayesian priors are then placed on the treatment-effect parameters to produce full posterior distributions over the causal estimand rather than a single point estimate.
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- Iacus, S. M., King, G., & Porro, G. (2012). Causal Inference without Balance Checking: Coarsened Exact Matching. Political Analysis, 20(1), 1-24. DOI: 10.1093/pan/mpr013 ↗
- Hill, J. L. (2011). Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling for Causal Inference. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 20(1), 217-240. DOI: 10.1198/jcgs.2010.08162 ↗