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Matching (statistics)

Matching is a statistical technique that evaluates the effect of a treatment by comparing the treated and the non-treated units in an observational study or quasi-experiment (i.e. when the treatment is not randomly assigned). The goal of matching is to reduce bias for the estimated treatment effect in an observational-data study, by finding, for every…

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Matching (statistics)

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Edges30
Triples0
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.064516
Components1

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