使用matchit函数进行完全匹配时,结果因输入数据帧的顺序而异。即,如果数据的顺序改变,则结果也改变。这是令人惊讶的,因为根据我的理解,最佳完整算法应该只产生一个最佳解决方案。
我错过了什么吗?还是这是个错误?
最佳算法会出现相似的差异。
在下面您可以找到一个可复制的示例。这两个数据集的子类应该相同,但事实并非如此。 谢谢您的帮助!
# create data
nr <- c(1:100)
x1 <- rnorm(100, mean=50, sd=20)
x2 <- c(rep("a", 20),rep("b", 60), rep("c", 20))
x3 <- rnorm(100, mean=230, sd=2)
outcome <- rnorm(100, mean=500, sd=20)
group <- c(rep(0, 50),rep(1, 50))
df <- data.frame(x1=x1, x2=x2, outcome=outcome, group=group, row.names=nr, nr=nr)
df_neworder <- df[order(outcome),] # re-order data.frame
# perform matching
model_oldorder <- matchit(group~x1, data=df, method="full", distance ="logit")
model_neworder <- matchit(group~x1, data=df_neworder, method="full", distance ="logit")
# store matching results
matcheddata_oldorder <- match.data(model_oldorder, distance="pscore")
matcheddata_neworder <- match.data(model_neworder, distance="pscore")
# Results based on original data.frame
head(matcheddata_oldorder[order(nr),], 10)
x1 x2 outcome group nr pscore weights subclass
1 69.773776 a 489.1769 0 1 0.5409943 1.0 27
2 63.949637 a 529.2733 0 2 0.5283582 1.0 32
3 52.217666 a 526.7928 0 3 0.5028106 0.5 17
4 48.936397 a 492.9255 0 4 0.4956569 1.0 9
5 36.501507 a 512.9301 0 5 0.4685876 1.0 16
# Results based on re-ordered data.frame
head(matcheddata_neworder[order(matcheddata_neworder$nr),], 10)
x1 x2 outcome group nr pscore weights subclass
1 69.773776 a 489.1769 0 1 0.5409943 1.0 25
2 63.949637 a 529.2733 0 2 0.5283582 1.0 31
3 52.217666 a 526.7928 0 3 0.5028106 0.5 15
4 48.936397 a 492.9255 0 4 0.4956569 1.0 7
5 36.501507 a 512.9301 0 5 0.4685876 2.0 14
显然,对象对子类的分配不同。据我了解,事实并非如此。
答案 0 :(得分:0)
optmatch程序包(matchit函数调用)的开发人员提供了有用的帮助:
我认为我们在这里看到的是公差参数的结果 完全匹配。匹配算法需要整数距离, 因此我们必须先缩放然后截断浮点距离。为一个 给定一组整数距离,可能存在多个匹配项 达到最小值,因此求解器可以自由选择 非唯一解决方案。
Developing your example a little more:
> library(optmatch)
> nr <- c(1:100) x1 <- rnorm(100, mean=50, sd=20)
> outcome <- rnorm(100, mean=500, sd=20) group <- c(rep(0, 50),rep(1, 50))
> df_oldorder <- data.frame(x1=x1, outcome=outcome, group=group, row.names=nr, nr=nr) > df_neworder <- df_oldorder[order(outcome),] # > re-order data.frame
> glm_oldorder <- match_on(glm(group~x1, > data=df_oldorder), data = df_oldorder)
> glm_neworder <- > match_on(glm(group~x1, data=df_neworder), data = df_neworder)
> fm_old <- fullmatch(glm_oldorder, data=df_oldorder)
> fm_new <- fullmatch(glm_neworder, data=df_neworder)
> mean(sapply(matched.distances(fm_old, glm_oldorder), mean))
> ## 0.06216174
> mean(sapply(matched.distances(fm_new, glm_neworder), mean))
> ## 0.062058 mean(sapply(matched.distances(fm_old, glm_oldorder), mean)) -
> mean(sapply(matched.distances(fm_new, glm_neworder), mean))
> ## 0.00010373
我们看到的小于默认公差0.001。您可以随时降低容忍度,
需要增加运行时间,以便更接近真实情况 浮动看跌期权最低限度。我们发现0.001似乎在实践中效果很好, 但是这个值没有什么特别的。