Session 2 - Matching and Equivalence

It’s like you’re my mirror (Oh),
My mirror’s staring back at me (Oh),

- Justin Timberlake, upon finding a matched unit, in Mirrors

Ackowledgements

The lab builds on the resources:

  1. Chapter 14 - Matching (Huntington-Klein, n.d.)

  2. Chapter 5 - Matching and Subclassification (Cunningham, n.d.)

  3. Lab Material for Govt 8003 created by Nicolo Bonifai and Ben Burnley

Today’s Lab

  1. Matching
  • Stratification
  • Exact Matching
  • Propensity Score Matching
  • Checking the Match
    - On Covariates
    - On Propensity Scores - Comparing Results
  1. Equivalence Testing

Material

  1. Download the 8003 Matching and Equivalence Test Lab Zipped Folder.

  2. Run the .RProj file.

  3. Open matching-10012024.qmd in Rstudio.