df2dataHolder {causalOT}

df2dataHolder

Description

Function to turn a data.frame into a dataHolder object.

Usage

df2dataHolder(
  treatment.formula,
  outcome.formula = NA_character_,
  data,
  weights = NA_real_
)

Arguments

treatment.formula

a formula specifying the treatment indicator and covariates. Required.

outcome.formula

an optional formula specifying the outcome function.

data

a data.frame with the data

weights

optional vector of sampling weights for the data

Details

This will take the formulas specified and transform that data.frame into a dataHolder object that is used internally by the causalOT package. Take care if you do not specify an outcome formula that you do not include the outcome in the data.frame. If you are not careful, the function may include the outcome as a covariate, which is not kosher in causal inference during the design phase.

If both outcome.formula and treatment.formula are specified, it will assume you are in the design phase, and create a combined covariate matrix to balance on the assumed treatment and outcome models.

If you are in the outcome phase of estimation, you can just provide a dummy formula for the treatment.formula like "z ~ 0" just so the function can identify the treatment indicator appropriately in the data creation phase.

Value

Returns an object of class dataHolder()

Examples

set.seed(20348)
n <- 15
d <- 3
x <- matrix(stats::rnorm(n*d), n, d)
z <- rbinom(n, 1, prob = 0.5)
y <- rnorm(n)
weights <- rep(1/n,n)
df <- data.frame(x, z, y)
dh <- df2dataHolder(
  treatment.formula = "z ~ .",
  outcome.formula = "y ~ ." ,
  data = df,
  weights = weights)