Imbalance command before Cem command

[Arnaud Lesegretain]

Hi,

I am trying to use the imbalance command before using the cem command in order to get a measure of the imbalance between baseline covariates:

imbalance sex aged histo geogr, treatment(raceb)
file sex.dta not found
r(601);

many thanks for the help
Arnaud

[Jared Greathouse]

Thanks for sharing your example data and telling us that this imbalance is in fact a user written command, as we ask you to.

Anyways, when I Google this, the syntax says it's

imbalance dataname varname treatname blockname savfile

So your dataset isn't named sex.

[David Wunder]

Hi Arnaud,

I assume you mean the command described in the article cem: Coarsened exact matching in Stata (Stata Journal | Article (stata-journal.com)) with the syntax described as

 imbalance varlist [if ] [in] [, treatment(varname) breaks(string) miname(string) misets(#) useweights ]

The imbalance command seems to be another user-written command as you noticed but for me, the command mentioned is accessible via

imb varlist [if] [in] [, options]

David

[Arnaud Lesegretain]

thank you David