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Matching Methods

Matching Methods are a family of causal-inference techniques beyond propensity-score matching that pair treated and control units with similar covariates so that a treatment effect can be read off the balanced sample. The family includes Coarsened Exact Matching (Iacus, King & Porro, 2012), optimal matching, and genetic matching.

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General Matching Methods (CEM / Optimal / Genetic)
Taxonomic method record · regression-model / causal-inference
  • 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
  • Hansen, B. B. (2004). Full Matching in an Observational Study of Coaching for the SAT. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 99(467), 609-618. · DOI 10.1198/016214504000000647
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Same method familyHeterogeneous Treatment Effectsmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyInverse Probability Weightingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyLocal Average Treatment Effectmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoPropensity Score Matchingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familySensitivity Analysis for Unmeasured Confoundingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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