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Directional Penalties for Optimal Matching in Observational Studies

v0.6.4 · Aug 7, 2022 · MIT + file LICENSE

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Improves the balance of optimal matching with near-fine balance by giving penalties on the unbalanced covariates with the unbalanced directions. Many directional penalties can also be viewed as Lagrange multipliers, pushing a matched sample in the direction of satisfying a linear constraint that would not be satisfied without penalization. Yu and Rosenbaum (2019) <doi:10.1111/biom.13098>.

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new 0.6.4 Mar 10, 2026