A Kernel-Based Metric for Balance Assessment
An important goal in causal inference is to achieve balance in the covariates among the treatment groups. In this article, we introduce the concept of distributional balance preserving which requires the distribution of the covariates to be the same in different treatment groups. We also introduce a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2018-09-01
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| Series: | Journal of Causal Inference |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2016-0029 |