Apply Matching Method in Causal Analysis

with a Real-World Example in Python

Shuangyuan (Sharon) Wei
Towards Data Science
5 min readJun 24, 2021

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Motivation

Randomized experiment is the gold standard to examine causality. However, it’s often the case that we cannot conduct experiments for a variety of practical reasons and have to rely on observational data. Matching is a method used to approximate experimental results to recover the causal effect…

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