balance_summary function

Balance of Vaccinated/Unvaccinated Groups

This function creates a summary after matching.

balance_summary(
  data_set,
  nearest,
  exact,
  vacc_status_col,
  vaccinated_status,
  unvaccinated_status
)

Arguments

• data_set: data.frame to assess matching balance.
• nearest: Named vector with name(s) of column(s) for nearest matching and caliper(s) for each variable (e.g., nearest = c("characteristic1" = n1, "characteristic2" = n2), where n1 and n2 are the calipers).
• exact: Name(s) of column(s) for exact matching
• vacc_status_col: Name of the column containing the vaccination.
• vaccinated_status: Status assigned to the vaccinated population.
• unvaccinated_status: Status assigned to the unvaccinated population.

Returns

Summary data.frame with the balance of each variable by vaccine status. Numeric variables are reported with means, and categorical/factor variables are reported with proportions. In both cases, the Standardized Mean Difference (SMD) is calculated.