R Observatory: Metrics for CBPS version 0.24

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

CBPS

0.24

Covariate Balancing Propensity Score

8packages depend

71.9Kdownloads / year

18.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Christian FongFirst published 2012-07-1924 releasesCRAN page ↗

Implements the covariate balancing propensity score (CBPS) proposed by Imai and Ratkovic (2014) DOI:10.1111/rssb.12027. The propensity score is estimated such that it maximizes the resulting covariate balance as well as the prediction of treatment assignment. The method, therefore, avoids an iteration between model fitting and balance checking. The package also implements optimal CBPS from Fan et al. (in-press) DOI:10.1080/07350015.2021.2002159, several extensions of the CBPS beyond the cross-sectional, binary treatment setting. They include the CBPS for longitudinal settings so that it can be used in conjunction with marginal structural models from Imai and Ratkovic (2015) DOI:10.1080/01621459.2014.956872, treatments with three- and four-valued treatment variables, continuous-valued treatments from Fong, Hazlett, and Imai (2018) DOI:10.1214/17-AOAS1101, propensity score estimation with a large number of covariates from Ning, Peng, and Imai (2020) DOI:10.1093/biomet/asaa020, and the situation with multiple distinct binary treatments administered simultaneously. In the future it will be extended to other settings including the generalization of experimental and instrumental variable estimates.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("CBPS", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-cbps

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-CBPS

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-CBPS

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.02

18.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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ERROR2026-04-09
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Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 38%

Downloads

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Rank #1,781 · ~197/day · ~6K/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (6)

R >= 3.4MASSMatchItnnetnumDeriv glmnet

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

8direct

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CERFIT PanelMatch causalOT mvGPS MatchIt WeightIt causal.decomp cobalt

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Christian Fong

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Christian Fong

Author, Maintainer

Kosuke Imai

Author

Marc Ratkovic

Author

Contributors (4)

Chad Hazlett

Contributor · added in 0.10

Inbeom Lee

Contributor · added in 0.23

Sida Peng

Contributor · added in 0.14

Xiaolin Yang

Contributor · added in 0.11

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-07-19
Total releases: 24 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
Bundled data: 42 KB / 2 files
Download size: 108 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Fong, C., Hazlett, C., Imai, K., Lee, I., Peng, S., Ratkovic, M., & Yang, X. (2025). CBPS: Covariate Balancing Propensity Score (Version 0.24) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.CBPS

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for CBPS version 0.24 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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