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	การถ่วงดุลเอนโทรปีเชิงพื้นที่	Entropy Balancing
สาขาวิชา	การอนุมานเชิงสาเหตุ	การอนุมานเชิงสาเหตุ
ตระกูล	Regression model	Regression model
ปีกำเนิด	2010s	2012
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Extension of Hainmueller (2012) entropy balancing to spatial settings; spatial adaptations developed in geographic epidemiology and spatial econometrics literature	Jens Hainmueller
ประเภท	Quasi-experimental reweighting	Covariate-balancing reweighting
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	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.	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.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	spatial EB, geographically-weighted entropy balancing, spatial reweighting	EB, entropy reweighting, covariate balancing via entropy, Hainmueller balancing
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	6
สรุป	Spatial entropy balancing extends standard entropy balancing to observational settings where units are embedded in geographic space, incorporating spatial structure into the reweighting process so that balance is achieved while respecting spatial proximity, clustering, or spillover dependencies between units.	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.