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Re: st: nnmatch
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Re: st: nnmatch
Date
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:39:17 +0000
On Wed, Mar 21 2012, Melaku Fekadu wrote:
> Thanks for Brendan. I thought about this but then I was afraid that the
> program may do some kind of bias adjustments to the choice of the
> control group based on the outcome variable which is totally fictitious
> here. What do you think?
I don't know nnmatch. I would expect, however, that matching would not
take the outcome into account. You could verify this by running the job
more than once, with different fictitious y-variables.
Brendan
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