MatchIt: Nonparametric preprocessing for parametric causal inference

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1-28

  Ho, Daniel E ^a   Imai, Kosuke ^b   King, Gary ^c   Stuart, Elizabeth A ^d  

^a STANFORD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance; Causal inference; Matching methods; Preprocessing; R

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958747321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v042.i08     Document Type: Article

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