Essays about: "covariate balance"

Found 1 essay containing the words covariate balance.

  1. 1. Confounder Parsing for Text Matching

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

    Author : Jannes Reichl; Johan Rönkkö; [2021-07-06]
    Keywords : Text matching; confounder parsing; causal inference; covariate balance; International Monetary Fund; policy evaluation;

    Abstract : In observational studies for policy evaluation, matching is used in service of causal inference to simulate randomization and thus reduce selection bias that might occur when treatment assignment differs systematically. This is done by balancing the distribution of confounding covariates measured before treatments. READ MORE