One quick follow-up question. In 1c, should we use the weights to get
the ATE, or just a straight difference in means? I'm assuming the
weights indicate how one treated observation could have been matched to
several controls.
Thanks,
Mike
Dan Hopkins wrote:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, aram harrow wrote:
In 1(c), we report only a point estimate, right?
Yup.
1(d) Anyone know how to do two qqplot's on
the same graphs?
Like in page 34 of
http://gking.harvard.edu/g2001syl/files/cfMP.pdf
par(new = T) leaves a lot to be desired - some analogue of the points
or lines or abline commands would be nice...
There must be a better way, but I would do this by using par(new=T) and
then setting the ylim=c(0,1) and xlim=c(0,1) arguments, and also turning
off the labels for the second plot (e.g.
main="",xlab="",ylab="").
1(e)
More seriously, setting "cond=T" in setx (which seems like the right
thing to do for the assignment, right?) causes two problems with sim.
First, it gives this warning "First Differences are not calculated in
conditional prediction models." (So I guess I do the FD by hand?)
Second, it starts using enormous amounts of memory, which causes R to
crash on my computer. I guess I could use the icegov servers, but
presumably there's something more fundamental that I'm missing here,
since 20,000 observations shouldn't need more than 1GB of memory...
Some initial questions: where do you issue the Zelig command? Also, why
so many observations--this should be 1-1 matched data?
Best,
Dan
The command that fails for me is:
sim(zm.phone, x=setx(zm.phone, phone=0, data = dp, cond=T),
x1=setx(zm.phone, phone=1, data = dp, cond=T))
dp is created with
m.prop = matchit(phone.contact ~ democrat*age*household*vote96,
data = dp, method = "nearest")
dp.prop = match.data(m.prop, group="all")
dp is the data restricted to mail and door=0.
thanks!
aram
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