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	एन्ट्रॉपी संतुलन	प्रोपेंसिटी स्कोर वेटिंग (PSW / IPW)
क्षेत्र	कारणात्मक अनुमान	कारणात्मक अनुमान
परिवार	Regression model	Regression model
उद्भव वर्ष	2012	1983 (propensity score); 2003 (efficient IPW estimator)
प्रवर्तक	Jens Hainmueller	Rosenbaum & Rubin (propensity score); Hirano, Imbens & Ridder (efficient weighting)
प्रकार	Covariate-balancing reweighting	Causal inference / reweighting
मौलिक स्रोत	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.	Rosenbaum, P. R., & Rubin, D. B. (1983). The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects. Biometrika, 70(1), 41-55.
उपनाम	EB, entropy reweighting, covariate balancing via entropy, Hainmueller balancing	PSW, inverse probability weighting, IPW, propensity-based weighting
संबंधित	6	6
सारांश	Entropy balancing is a preprocessing method for causal inference that assigns weights to control-group units so that the reweighted control sample matches the treatment group exactly on a chosen set of covariate moments (means, variances, skewness). Introduced by Hainmueller (2012), it replaces trial-and-error propensity-score trimming with a constrained maximum-entropy optimisation that achieves balance in a single step.	Propensity score weighting is a causal-inference method that reweights observations so that the covariate distributions of treated and untreated units look exchangeable, enabling unbiased estimation of average treatment effects from observational data. Each unit receives a weight that is the inverse of its probability of receiving the treatment it actually received — a strategy formalised by Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983) and given its efficient semiparametric form by Hirano, Imbens and Ridder (2003).