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Directional Penalties for Optimal Matching in Observational Studies

v0.6.4 · Aug 7, 2022 · MIT + file LICENSE

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Improves the balance of optimal matching with near-fine balance by giving penalties on the unbalanced covariates with the unbalanced directions. Many directional penalties can also be viewed as Lagrange multipliers, pushing a matched sample in the direction of satisfying a linear constraint that would not be satisfied without penalization. Yu and Rosenbaum (2019) <doi:10.1111/biom.13098>.

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new 0.6.4 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.6.4 ← 0.6.3 diff Aug 6, 2022
updated 0.6.3 ← 0.6.2 diff May 31, 2022
updated 0.6.2 ← 0.6.1 diff Mar 20, 2021
updated 0.6.1 ← 0.6.0 diff Apr 10, 2020
updated 0.6.0 ← 0.5.0 diff Feb 9, 2020
updated 0.5.0 ← 0.4.0 diff Sep 17, 2019
updated 0.4.0 ← 0.3.0 diff Aug 26, 2019
updated 0.3.0 ← 0.2.0 diff May 2, 2019
updated 0.2.0 ← 0.1.1 diff Dec 8, 2018
new 0.1.1 Nov 18, 2018