kbal: Kernel Balancing

Provides a weighting approach that employs kernels to make one group have a similar distribution to another group on covariates. This method matches not only means or marginal distributions but also higher-order transformations implied by the choice of kernel. 'kbal' is applicable to both treatment effect estimation and survey reweighting problems. Based on Hazlett, C. (2020) "Kernel Balancing: A flexible non-parametric weighting procedure for estimating causal effects." Statistica Sinica. <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299013953_Kernel_Balancing_A_flexible_non-parametric_weighting_procedure_for_estimating_causal_effects/stats>.

Getting started

Package details

AuthorChad Hazlett [aut, cph], Ciara Sterbenz [aut], Erin Hartman [ctb], Alex Kravetz [ctb], Borna Bateni [aut, cre]
MaintainerBorna Bateni <borna@ucla.edu>
LicenseGPL (>= 2)
Version0.1.2
URL https://github.com/chadhazlett/kbal
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("kbal")

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kbal documentation built on April 3, 2025, 6:04 p.m.