Karsten W.'s review of Entropy Balancing for Causal Effects

Karsten W. reviewed Entropy Balancing for Causal Effects by Jens Hainmueller

No cover — Jens Hainmueller: Entropy Balancing for Causal Effects (Political Analysis)

Maximum Entropy Principle Applied

4 stars

The author applies the maximum entropy principle to calculate weights for survey responses given the first moments of population characteristics.

It is an example where as normalizing constraint in the maximum entropy problem formulation it is not required to that the weights sum to one. Instead, the sum is required to be the sample size.