เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การถ่วงน้ำหนักด้วยคะแนนแนวโน้ม (Propensity Score Weighting - PSW / IPW)	Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM)
สาขาวิชา	การอนุมานเชิงสาเหตุ	การอนุมานเชิงสาเหตุ
ตระกูล	Regression model	Regression model
ปีกำเนิด	1983 (propensity score); 2003 (efficient IPW estimator)	2011-2012
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Rosenbaum & Rubin (propensity score); Hirano, Imbens & Ridder (efficient weighting)	Iacus, King, & Porro
ประเภท	Causal inference / reweighting	Matching / causal inference
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	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.	Iacus, S. M., King, G., & Porro, G. (2012). Causal Inference without Balance Checking: Coarsened Exact Matching. Political Analysis, 20(1), 1-24.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	PSW, inverse probability weighting, IPW, propensity-based weighting	CEM, coarsened matching, monotonic imbalance bounding matching
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	6
สรุป	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).	Coarsened Exact Matching is a preprocessing method that achieves covariate balance by temporarily coarsening continuous variables into bins, exactly matching treated and control units within those bins, and then discarding all unmatched units. Introduced by Iacus, King, and Porro (2011, 2012), it bounds imbalance on each covariate independently, yielding a matched sample on which any estimator can be applied without relying on a propensity score model.