Network flow methods for the minimum covariate imbalance problem

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2021.10.041MaRDI QIDQ2116900zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dorit S. Hochbaum, Xu Rao, Jason J. Sauppe

Publication date 18 March 2022

Published in European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.10.041

zbMATH Keywords

causal inferencenetworkscovariate imbalance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Causal inference from observational studies (62D20) Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10) Integer programming (90C10)

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• Algorithms and Complexities of Matching Variants in Covariate Balancing
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Uses Software

• mipmatch
• finebalance

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