COVBAL: Stata module for producing covariate balance statistics

Ariel Linden

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: covbal produces a table of distributional test statistics (means, variances, and skewness) for each covariate specified, and assesses balance between treatment groups in the means (using the standardized difference) and in the variances (using the variance ratio).

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 11
Keywords: observational studies; matching; covariate balance. propensity score (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-06-03, Revised 2020-11-03
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install covbal". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/covbalexcel.do ancillary file (text/plain)

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