Characterizing the effect of matching using linear propensity score methods with normal distributions
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正态分布下线性倾向得分匹配效果的刻画
- 研究问题
- 在正态分布设定下，使用真实或估计的线性倾向得分进行匹配，如何影响协变量偏差及不同方向上的变异？
- 方法与思路
- 作者推导匹配效果的解析表达式，分别处理已知倾向得分，以及通过判别分析或逻辑回归估计得分的情况。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，估计得分匹配还能控制与总体得分正交方向的变异，并提供方差与偏差缩减幅度的近似表达式。
- 阅读关注点
- 核对正态设定、匹配规则及近似成立条件，尤其关注容易与困难匹配情形下，偏差和方差比较为何不同。
- 阅读边界
- 仅据版本未注明的 OpenAlex 索引摘要；所述方差缩减有特定匹配情境，不能推广为估计得分匹配普遍更优。
原文摘要
Matched sampling is a standard technique for controlling bias in observational studies due to specific covariates. Since Rosenbaum & Rubin (1983), multivariate matching methods based on estimated propensity scores have been used with increasing frequency in medical, educational, and sociological applications. We obtain analytic expressions for the effect of matching using linear propensity score methods with normal distributions. These expressions cover cases where the propensity score is either known, or estimated using either discriminant analysis or logistic regression, as is typically done in current practice. The results show that matching using estimated propensity scores not only reduces bias along the population propensity score, but also controls variation of components orthogonal to it. Matching on estimated rather than population propensity scores can therefore lead to relatively large variance reduction, as much as a factor of two in common matching settings where close matches are possible. Approximations are given for the magnitude of this variance reduction, which can be computed using estimates obtained from the matching pools. Related expressions for bias reduction are also presented which suggest that, in difficult matching situations, the use of population scores leads to greater bias reduction than the use of estimated scores.