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Re: st: N to 1 matching without replacement
From
Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: N to 1 matching without replacement
Date
Wed, 5 May 2010 13:18:58 -0400
Russell Callaghan <[email protected]> :
I take it back--it looks like -psmatch2- (on SSC) will not do 1 to
many matching w/o replacement but issues the error:
"Matching without replacement is only implemented with 1-to-1
propensity score matching"
I guess the issue with matching N cases without replacement is that
the order of the matches plays a much bigger role in how well the
matches approximate a overall distance-minimizing choice... though
that seems an issue of magnitude not of type (of potential erroneous
matching).
Why don't you just reweight instead of matching? Easier and more defensible...
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Austin Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
> Russell Callaghan <[email protected]> :
> -psmatch2- (on SSC) has a noreplacement option; but once you have
> matched n cases onto each of the treatment cases, you can only see the
> id of the first match in the _n1 variable. I guess you could hack
> into the code, at places like
>
> st_view(N1,.,"_n1")
>
> to instead create a set of N match id variables. Make sure you save
> the resulting bastardized program as my_psmatch.ado or somesuch.
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Russell Callaghan
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I want to use psmatch2 (or any other STATA propensity score matching
>> algorithm) to perform an N to 1 matching without replacement. I have
>> looked at the STATAlist extensively and have found no solution to my
>> problem. Although psmatch2 provides 1 to n matching with replacement, I
>> want to do matching without replacement so that I can then do a Cox
>> regression which accounts for the correlated structure of the data by
>> using the VCE(cluster paired) command. Any thoughts about the way ahead?
>> Thanks,
>> Russ
>>
>
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