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entropy balancing: a standalone construct

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Causal inference

a reweighting method that finds control unit weights meeting preset covariate moment conditions while staying as close as possible to uniform weights.

In causal inference, entropy balancing refers to a reweighting method that finds control unit weights meeting preset covariate moment conditions while staying as close as possible to uniform weights. This meaning comes from Hainmueller (2012) in Political Analysis.[1]

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References

Hainmueller, J. (2012). Entropy Balancing for Causal Effects: A Multivariate Reweighting Method to Produce Balanced Samples in Observational Studies. Political Analysis, 20(1), 25-46. https://doi.org/10.1093/pan/mpr025

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