summary.PanelMatch: Summarize information about a PanelMatch object and the...

In PanelMatch: Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data

Summarize information about a PanelMatch object and the matched sets contained within them.

Description

A method for viewing summary data about the sizes of matched sets and metadata about how they were created. This method accepts all standard summary arguments. If the quantity of interest is ate, then a summary will be provided for the matched sets associated with the att and the atc.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'PanelMatch'
summary(object, ..., verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

object	a PanelMatch object
...	Optional additional arguments to be passed to the summary function
verbose	Logical value specifying whether or not a longer, more verbose summary should be calculated and returned. Default is FALSE.

Value

A list of lists containing a summary of the matched sets associated with the specified qoi. Each sublist object will either have 5 or 1 element(s), depending on whether or not verbose is set to TRUE or not.

overview	A data.frame object containing information about the treated units (unit id, time of treatment), and the number of matched control units with weights zero and above.
set.size.summary	a summary object summarizing the minimum, maximum, and IQR of matched set sizes
number.of.treated.units	The number of unit, time pairs that are considered to be "treated" units
num.units.empty.set	The number of units treated at a particular time that were not able to be matched to any control units
lag	The size of the lag window used for matching on treatment history. This affects which treated and control units are matched.

Examples

dem.sub <- dem[dem[, "wbcode2"] <= 100, ]
dem.sub.panel <- PanelData(dem.sub, "wbcode2", "year", "dem", "y")
PM.results <- PanelMatch(panel.data = dem.sub.panel,
                         lag = 4, 
                         refinement.method = "mahalanobis",
                         match.missing = TRUE,
                         covs.formula = ~ I(lag(tradewb, 1:4)) + I(lag(y, 1:4)),
                         size.match = 5, qoi = "att",
                         lead = 0:4, forbid.treatment.reversal = FALSE)
summary(PM.results)

PanelMatch documentation built on April 3, 2025, 6:34 p.m.