Multivariate and Propensity Score Matching Software with Automated Balance Optimization: The Matching package for R

Matching is an R package which provides functions for multivariate and propensity score matching and for finding optimal covariate balance based on a genetic search algorithm. A variety of univariate and multivariate metrics to determine if balance actually has been obtained are provided. The underl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jasjeet S. Sekhon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2011-08-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
Subjects:
R
Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/v42/i07/paper