DiPs

0.6.4

Directional Penalties for Optimal Matching in Observational Studies

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Overview

About

Maintained by Ruoqi YuFirst published 2018-11-1910 releasesCRAN page ↗

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.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("DiPs", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-dips

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-DiPs

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

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Dependencies

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5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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Imports (5)

statsplyr mvnfastmethodsrlemon

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Suggests (2)

optmatch rrelaxiv

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Ruoqi Yu

no longer listed · 0.1.1 to 0.6.4

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-11-19
Total releases: 10 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Additional repositories: errickson.net
Bundled data: 47 KB / 1 file
Download size: 57 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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