costSkeleton: Create cost skeleton
In MultiObjMatch: Multi-Objective Matching Algorithm

costSkeleton

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Create cost skeleton

Description

Create a more user-friendly data structure to represent the edge costs in a network. Internally the network object used by the optmiization routine represents all the edge costs in a single vector. The "skeleton" structure decomposes this vector into a list of components, each corresponding to a different role in the network: "pairings" are edges between treated and control, exclusion" are direct links between treated units and a sink that allows them to be excluded, "balance" refers to edges that count marginal balance between groups, and "sink" indicates edges that connect control nodes to the sink. Skeletons are created so these various features can be combined (or switched on and off) easily into objective functions, and the interface to the main tradeoff function expects to see each function represented in skeleton format.