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| From | brendan.halpin@ul.ie (Brendan Halpin) |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: random sampling matching the characteristics of the sample |
| Date | Tue, 01 May 2012 13:01:57 +0100 |
On Tue, May 01 2012, Maarten Buis wrote: > There are good rasons for using propensity score matching (and equally > good reasons for not doing so, it all depends on the exact nature of > your research question, your data, etc.) but a sparse dummy is not one > of them. Also, when doing propensity score matching there is nothing to stop you using many controls for each case, and indeed it is often desirable. Brendan -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F1-009 x 3147 mailto:brendan.halpin@ul.ie ULSociology on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/fjIK9t http://teaching.sociology.ul.ie/bhalpin/wordpress twitter:@ULSociology * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/