textmatching: Functions for Matching with Text-Based Confounding

Text matching is an approach to adjustment in causal effect estimation when a document provides a proxy for unobserved confounding. The package includes functions to implement the approach to text matching developed in Roberts, Stewart and Nielsen (2020) <doi:10.1111/ajps.12526>.

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Package details

AuthorRichard Nielsen [aut], Brandon Stewart [cre, aut], Margaret Roberts [aut]
MaintainerBrandon Stewart <bms4@princeton.edu>
LicenseGPL-3
Version0.1.0
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("textmatching")

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textmatching documentation built on Aug. 19, 2020, 9:06 a.m.