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rcbsubset

Optimal Subset Matching with Refined Covariate Balance

v1.1.7 · Mar 25, 2022 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Tools for optimal subset matching of treated units and control units in observational studies, with support for refined covariate balance constraints, (including fine and near-fine balance as special cases). A close relative is the 'rcbalance' package. See Pimentel, et al.(2015) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2014.997879> and Pimentel and Kelz (2020) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2020.1720693>. The rrelaxiv package, which provides an alternative solver for the underlying network flow problems, carries an academic license and is not available on CRAN, but may be downloaded from Github at <https://github.com/josherrickson/rrelaxiv/>.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies MASS plyr rcbalance rlemon matchMulti rcbsubset

Version History

new 1.1.7 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.1.7 ← 1.1.6 diff Mar 25, 2022
updated 1.1.6 ← 1.1.5 diff Mar 2, 2022
updated 1.1.5 ← 1.1.4 diff Nov 7, 2021
updated 1.1.4 ← 1.1.3 diff May 16, 2018
updated 1.1.3 ← 1.1.2 diff Nov 11, 2017
updated 1.1.2 ← 1.1 diff Feb 19, 2016
new 1.1 Feb 16, 2016