covariate.match {causalBatch}

Pairwise covariate matching

Description

Pairwise covariate matching

Usage

covariate.match(covar.tx, covar.cont, match.form, match.args = NULL)

Arguments

covar.tx

the treatment covariate/label matrix.

covar.cont

the control covariate/label matrix.

match.form

A formula of columns from Xs, to be passed directly to matchit for subsequent matching. See formula argument from matchit for details.

match.args

A named list arguments for the matchit function, to be used to specify specific matching strategies, where the list names are arguments and the corresponding values the value to be passed to matchit.

Value

a list containing:

• I.mat.k index matrix of control samples that have a match.

• M.mat.k match matrix of treatment samples that are correspondingly matched to a control.