Looking Inside Mahalanobis Metric Matching

How does it actually work?

Dr. Lucky
Towards Data Science
4 min readMay 28, 2020

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My previous post shows how the propensity score matching can be implemented using 13 lines of R codes. Though those codes, you can see that matching is much about data pre-processing. The idea is to find control units that are comparable to the treated units, so we can attribute the differences in the outcome between treatment groups to the…

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