Package: kbal 0.1.5

Borna Bateni

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>.

Authors:Chad Hazlett [aut, cph], Ciara Sterbenz [aut], Erin Hartman [ctb], Alex Kravetz [ctb], Borna Bateni [aut, cre]

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kbal/json (API)

# Install 'kbal' in R:

install.packages('kbal', repos = c('https://chadhazlett.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/chadhazlett/kbal/issues

Uses libs:

c++– GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Datasets:

lalonde - Data from National Supported Work program and Panel Study in Income Dynamics

On CRAN:

cpp

5.51 score 12 stars 134 scripts 222 downloads 14 exports 27 dependencies

Last updated from:3cb38cbd19. Checks:13 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-arm64	OK	162
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	186
source / vignettes	OK	249
linux-release-arm64	OK	154
linux-release-x86_64	OK	179
macos-release-arm64	OK	129
macos-release-x86_64	OK	346
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	255
macos-oldrel-x86_64	OK	318
windows-devel	OK	128
windows-release	OK	135
windows-oldrel	OK	109
wasm-release	OK	126

Exports:b_maxvarK biasbound calc_linearized_var calc_ses_cat_var dimw drop_multicollin ebalance_custom getdist getw kbal kpop kpop_summary makeK one_hot

Dependencies:cli codetools dplyr foreach generics glmnet glue iterators lattice lifecycle magrittr Matrix pillar pkgconfig R6 Rcpp RcppEigen RcppParallel rlang RSpectra shape survival tibble tidyselect utf8 vctrs withr

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Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Maximum Variance of Gaussian Kernel Matrix	b_maxvarK
Worst-Case Bias Bound due to Incomplete Balance	biasbound
Linearized variance for a kpop-weighted mean	calc_linearized_var
Weighted proportions and SEs for a categorical outcome	calc_ses_cat_var
Difference in Means and Difference in Weighted Means	dimw
Drop Multicollinear Columns	drop_multicollin
Modified version of ebalance (originally from Jens Hainmueller)	ebalance_custom
L1 Distance	getdist
Find Weights using Entropy Balancing.	getw
Kernel Balancing	kbal
Kernel balancing for survey reweighting (kpop).	kpop
Summarise outcomes from a kpop-weighted analysis	kpop_summary
Data from National Supported Work program and Panel Study in Income Dynamics	lalonde
Build the Gaussian Kernel Matrix	makeK
One-Hot Encoding for Categorical Data	one_hot
Print method for kpop_summary objects	print.kpop_summary