ebalance: A Stata Package for Entropy Balancing

The Stata package ebalance implements entropy balancing, a multivariate reweighting method described in Hainmueller (2012 ) that allows users to reweight a dataset such that the covariate distributions in the reweighted data satisfy a set of specified moment conditions. This can be useful to create...

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Main Authors: Hainmueller, Jens (Contributor), Su, Yiqing (Author), Xu, Yiqing (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UCLA Statistics/American Statistical Association, 2014-09-18T18:38:45Z.
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