new_manual_strata function

New Manual Strata

Basic constructor for an manual_strata object. These objects hold all the information associated with a dataset that has been stratified via manual_stratify. This object may be passed to strata_match to be matched or it may be unpacked by the user to be matched by other means.

new_manual_strata(
  treat = character(),
  covariates = character(),
  analysis_set = data.frame(),
  call = call(),
  issue_table = data.frame(),
  strata_table = data.frame()
)

Arguments

• treat: a string giving the name of the column where treatment information is stored
• covariates: a character vector with the names of the categorical columns on which to stratify
• analysis_set: the data set which will be stratified
• call: the call to manual_stratify used to generate this object
• issue_table: a table of each stratum and potential issues of size and treat:control balance
• strata_table: a table of each stratum and the covariate bin this corresponds to

Returns

a basic manual_strata object