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ldamatch (version 1.0.3)

.calc_subject_balance_divergence: Characterizes closeness of actual group sizes to what is expected.

Description

Characterizes closeness of actual group sizes to what is expected.

Usage

.calc_subject_balance_divergence(table_condition, props)

Value

KL divergence of the actual group size proportions from the expected ones.

Arguments

table_condition

The number of different condition values, usually created by calling table(condition).

props

Either the desired proportions (percentage) of the sample for each condition as a named vector, or the names of the conditions for which we prefer to preserve the subjects, in decreasing order of preference. If not specified, the (full) sample proportions are used. This is preferred among configurations with the same taken into account by the other methods to some extent. For example, c(A = 0.4, B = 0.4, C = 0.2) means that we would like the number of subjects in groups A, B, and C to be around 40%, 40%, and 20% of the total number of subjects, respectively. Whereas c("A", "B", "C") means that if possible, we would like to keep all subjects in group A, and prefer keeping subjects in B, even if it results in losing more subjects from C.

See Also

match_groups for meaning of condition parameter.