ebalance : A Stata Package for Entropy Balancing
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Abstract
The Stata package ebalance implements entropy balancing, a multivariate reweighting method described in Hainmueller (2012 ) that allows users to reweight a dataset such that the covariate distributions in the reweighted data satisfy a set of specified moment conditions. This can be useful to create balanced samples in observational studies with a binary treatment where the control group data can be reweighted to match the covariate moments in the treatment group. Entropy balancing can also be used to reweight a survey sample to known characteristics from a target population.
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- Covariate
- Computer science
- Multivariate statistics
- Binary data
- Entropy (arrow of time)
- Binary number
- Population
- Observational study
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