similar to: [OT] propensity score implementation

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

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:

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

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,

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

Dear List, I am having difficulty running the ps() function when variables are stored as factors and was hoping someone could provide some advice on how to proceed. I am running propensity score matching as outlined in: Greg Ridgeway, Dan McCarey, Andrew Morral, Lane Burgette and Beth Ann Grin (May 3, 2013) Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups: A tutorial for the twang

"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

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

Hello! If I understand this listserve correctly, I can email this address to get help when I am struggling with code. If this is inaccurate, please let me know, and I will unsubscribe. I have been struggling with the same error message for a while, and I can't seem to get past it. Here is the issue: I am using a data set that uses -1:-9 to indicate various kinds of missing data. I changed

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

Hi. I am using the Matching package for propensity score matching. For each treated unit, I want to find all control units whose propensity scores lie within a certain distance from the treated unit. The sample code is as follows: > library(Matching) > x <- rnorm(100000) > y <- rnorm(100000) > z <- rbinom(100000,1,0.002) > logit.reg <-

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

I am working on my thesis in which i have couple of independent variables that are categorical in nature and the depndent variable is dichotomus. Initially I run univariate analysis and added the variables with significant p-values (p<0.25) in my full model. I have three confusions. Firstly, I am looking for confounding variables by using formula "(crude beta-cofficient - adjusted

Dear List, I have a theoretical question related to epidemiological data analysis: If the treatment status (tx = 0,1) changes over time for the patients in a non-randomized cohort, is there a way to estimate the treatment effect? (i.e., after joining the study, some patients may have to wait for a period of time before receiving the treatment, i.e., the situation of patient with id == 2 for the

I have to the treatment effect base on the observational data.And the treatment variable is multinomial rather than binary.Because the treatment assignment is not random,so the selection-bias exists.Under this condition,what's the best way to estimate the treatment effect? I know that if the treatment is binary,I can use propensity score matching using MatchIt package.But what about

Dear Listers, My post might be somewhat OT. Currently, I am trying to use flexmix to build a finite mixture model. For instance, I am getting the prior probability and coefficients for each latent class from training data. Is there a way to get the posterior probablity and prediction of a new dataset? What I am thinking is to apply the prior prob and coefficient from training set to testing data

Hi! I'm trying to perform propensity score matching on survey data and so for each individual observation I have a statistical weight attached. My question is: is there a way within the package to consider these weights in the matching procedure? Thank you very much. -- Maria Cristina Maurizio [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear list, I am trying to set up a propensity-weighted regression using the survey package. Most of my population is sampled with a sampling probability of one (that is, I have the full population). However, for a subset of the data I have only a 50% sample of the full population. In previous work on the data, I analyzed these data using SAS and STATA. In those packages I used a propensity weight