similar to: error when using ps() function on categorical variables - re propensity score matching

The Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups (twang 1.0) has been released to CRAN. The package collects functions useful for computing propensity score weights for treatment effect estimation, developing nonresponse weights, and diagnosing the quality of those weights. The package includes a vignette containing some basic theory and walks through two examples. It is available by

There may be benefits to having a machine learning method that explicitly targets covariate balance. We have experimented with optimizing the weights directly to obtain the best covariate balance, but got some strange solutions for simple cases that made us wary of such methods. Machine learning methods that yield calibrated probability estimates should do well (e.g. those that optimize the

Hi all, i am wondering if there?s any other method to adjust for selection related bias of estimates except propensity scoring and heckit / mills ratio approach? i also read documentation of Match and twang package so far, so i don?t speak of any ATE / ATT related methods, respectively any methods that match or stratify... Is there something else ? thx in advance

Hi all, i am looking to built a simple example of a very basic propensity score adjustment, just using the estimated propensity scores as inverse probability weights (respectively 1-estimated weights for the non-treated). As far as i understood, MLE predictions of a logit model can directly be used as to estimates of the propensity score. I already considered the twang package and the

Dear All, I would like to find something ( references, code,..) to implement a comparison of three treatments in an observational study using the 'Propensity Score'. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks! Giovanni -- dr. Giovanni Parrinello Department of Biotecnologies Medical Statistics Unit University of Brescia Viale Europa, 11 25123 Brescia email: parrinel at med.unibs.it Phone:

Dear R-list, i have 6 different sets of samples. Each sample has about 5000 observations, with each observation comprised of 150 baseline covariates (X), 125 of which are dichotomous. Roughly 20% of the observations in each sample are "treatment" and the rest are "control" units. i am doing propensity score matching, i have already estimated propensity scores(predicted

Dear All, My question is more a statistical question than a R question. The reason I am posting here is that there are lots of excellent statistician on this list, who can always give me good advices. Per my understanding, the purpose of propensity score is to reduce the bias while estimating the treatment effect and its implementation is a 2-stage model. 1) First of all, if we assume that T =

I'm using the "Match" package to do propensity score matching. Here's some example code that shows the problem that I'm having (much of this code is taken from the Match package documentation): *data(lalonde) glm1 <- glm(treat~age + I(age^2) + educ + I(educ^2) + black + hisp + married + nodegr + re74 + I(re74^2) + re75 + I(re75^2) + u74 + u75,

"Matching" version 0.48 is now available on CRAN. Matching provides functions for estimating causal effects by multivariate and propensity score matching. The package includes a variety of univariate and multivariate tests to determine if balance has been obtained by the matching procedure. These tests can also be used to determine if an experiment or quasi-experiment is balanced on

"Matching" version 0.48 is now available on CRAN. Matching provides functions for estimating causal effects by multivariate and propensity score matching. The package includes a variety of univariate and multivariate tests to determine if balance has been obtained by the matching procedure. These tests can also be used to determine if an experiment or quasi-experiment is balanced on

Hola chic en s, alguien con experiencia en propensión score matching? Planteo duda: Clasicamente el PSM se ha utilizado en un intento de homogeneizar cohortes de enfermos quienes han estado ?expuestos? a un tratamiento x Vs aquellos que no han estado expuestos (no expuestos). Esto aplica para medicamentos o procedimientos quirúrgicos o no. Bien, En algún articulo he leído que el PSM se puede

Hello all. I am doing one part of an evaluation of a mandatory welfare-to-work programme in the UK. As with all evaluations, the problem is to determine what would have happened if the initiative had not taken place. In our case, we have a number of pilot areas and no possibility of random assignment. Therefore we have been given control areas. My problem is to select for survey individuals in

Hola chic en s, alguien con experiencia en propensión score matching? Planteo duda: Clasicamente el PSM se ha utilizado en un intento de homogeneizar cohortes de enfermos quienes han estado ?expuestos? a un tratamiento x Vs aquellos que no han estado expuestos (no expuestos). Esto aplica para medicamentos o procedimientos quirúrgicos o no. Bien, En algún articulo he leído que el PSM se puede

this is the problem: load this R data frame over the internet and save it to your hard drive. http://rss.acs.unt.edu/Rdoc/library/twang/data/raceproling.RData please show how to save a dataset of males only (the variable male=1) to a new dataframe. Then do the same thing for females (male=0). Then show how to recombine the two datasets to belike the original one except that the female

Dear All, Can you please suggest me a correct way to load the following R data frame from the internet and save it to the hard drive? The following is what I tried: > raceprofiling <- > read.table("http://rss.acs.unt.edu/Rdoc/library/twang/data/raceprofiling.RData") > save(raceprofiling, file = 'raceprofiling.RData') However, when I used dim() to check the dataset,

For the DID's the easiest way for you to trasmit the incoming DID is to create custom extensions for the external numbers that access the external trunk directly. (e.g. they should NOT go to Loca/xxxx. or it will not retain the orignal CID in freepbx- which is effectively how it is being sent when you put xxxxx# in the ring list). As far as why it is only ringing one of your external numbers,

I've been running rsync for years, and it's working great - offsite backups, backups to a SAN, etc. It's a lifesaver. Occasionally, I'm getting a very few files that give me something like the following: opendir(etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/apps/panel/default_profiles): Permission denied delete_one: rmdir usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/arch/mips/ite-boards: Permission

Hi Piotr, I think makes sense. Modulo bitcasts, the invariant is identified by a particular pointer SSA value. Given that you can't sensibly have two nonequivalent invariants associated with the same pointer SSA value simultaneously, there's no need to also identify the invariant with a metadata string as well. When we need a new "identifier" for the pointed-to value, we

Hello list, I've been searching around trying to find whether somebody has written such a package of least angle regression on generalized linear models, like what Lasso2 package does. The extension to generalized linear models is briefly discussed in the comment by D. Madigan and G. Ridgeway. Is such a package available? Thanks, Mike [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, Is there an R implementation of least angle regression for binary response modeling? I know that this question has been asked before, and I am also aware of the "lasso2" package, but that only implements an L1 penalty, i.e. the Lasso approach. Madigan and Ridgeway in their discussion of Efron et al (2004) describe a LARS-type algorithm for generalized linear models. Has