เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การถ่วงน้ำหนักด้วยคะแนนแนวโน้มเพื่อประเมินนโยบาย	การจับคู่คะแนนแนวโน้ม
สาขาวิชา	การอนุมานเชิงสาเหตุ	สถิติการวิจัย
ตระกูล	Regression model	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1983/2003	1983
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Rosenbaum & Rubin (1983); extended to policy evaluation by Hirano, Imbens & Ridder (2003)	Paul Rosenbaum and Donald Rubin
ประเภท	Quasi-experimental causal inference	Method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Hirano, K., Imbens, G. W., & Ridder, G. (2003). Efficient Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Using the Estimated Propensity Score. Econometrica, 71(4), 1161-1189.	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.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	PSW policy evaluation, inverse probability weighting for policy, IPW policy evaluation, policy PSW	PSM, propensity score weighting, covariate balance
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	3
สรุป	Policy evaluation propensity score weighting applies inverse-probability weighting to observational data to estimate the causal effect of a policy program. By reweighting participants and non-participants so they resemble a target population, it removes selection bias from voluntary or administratively allocated program assignment without requiring randomization.	Propensity score matching (PSM) is a method for reducing confounding bias in observational studies by balancing baseline characteristics between treatment groups, simulating randomization. Developed by Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983), it estimates the probability of receiving treatment given observed covariates, then matches or weights treated and control individuals with similar treatment probabilities. Widely used in medicine, epidemiology, and policy evaluation when randomized trials are infeasible or unethical, enabling estimation of treatment effects while controlling for selection bias.