kbal: Kernel Balancing
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: | 0.1.3 | 
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5.0) | 
| Imports: | Rcpp (≥ 0.11.0), RcppParallel (≥ 4.4.4), dplyr, RSpectra | 
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp, RcppParallel | 
| Published: | 2025-07-06 | 
| 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 | 
| CRAN checks: | kbal results | 
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