Provides a weighting approach that employs kernels to make one group have a similar distribution to another group on covariates. This method matches not only means or marginal distributions but also higher-order transformations implied by the choice of kernel. 'kbal' is applicable to both treatment effect estimation and survey reweighting problems. Based on Hazlett, C. (2020) "Kernel Balancing: A flexible non-parametric weighting procedure for estimating causal effects." Statistica Sinica. <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299013953_Kernel_Balancing_A_flexible_non-parametric_weighting_procedure_for_estimating_causal_effects>.
| Version: | 0.1.4 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5.0) |
| Imports: | Rcpp (≥ 0.11.0), RcppParallel (≥ 4.4.4), dplyr, RSpectra |
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp, RcppParallel |
| Published: | 2026-02-23 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.kbal |
| Author: | Chad Hazlett [aut, cph], Ciara Sterbenz [aut], Erin Hartman [ctb], Alex Kravetz [ctb], Borna Bateni [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Borna Bateni <borna at ucla.edu> |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| URL: | https://github.com/chadhazlett/kbal |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| Materials: | NEWS |
| In views: | CausalInference |
| CRAN checks: | kbal results |
| Reference manual: | kbal.html , kbal.pdf |
| Package source: | kbal_0.1.4.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: kbal_0.1.4.zip, r-release: kbal_0.1.4.zip, r-oldrel: kbal_0.1.4.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): kbal_0.1.4.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): kbal_0.1.4.tgz, r-release (x86_64): kbal_0.1.4.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): kbal_0.1.4.tgz |
| Old sources: | kbal archive |
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