Matching when each subject has multiple records, but each subject should be used only once in the match
I should have added that I want to propensity score match the subjects, which normally could be accomplished with MatchIt, but MatchIt will not, as far as I can determine, work with longitudinal data if I want each subject to be matched exactly once. John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Associate Director for Biostatistics and Informatics, Baltimore VA Medical Center Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center; PI Biostatistics and Informatics Core, University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center; Senior Statistician University of Maryland Center for Vascular Research; Division of Gerontology and Paliative Care, 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 Cell phone 443-418-5382
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Subject: [R] Matching when each subject has multiple records, but each subject should be used only once in the match
I have a file that contains longitudinal data for each subject. As a result, each subject can have multiple records. For example a given subject might have a record in Jan 2020, another in June 2020, another in Feb 2021, another in May 2021, another in Sept 2022, etc. At each time for which a subject has a record the subject is identified as a case or a control. Over the course of the longitudinal data, I want to match a given case to a given control. Once a subject is matched, I don't want the subject to be eligible for being matched again. If each subject had a single record, matching could easily be accomplished. How can I accomplish the match in my file having repeated measures for each subject? John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Associate Director for Biostatistics and Informatics, Baltimore VA Medical Center Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center; PI Biostatistics and Informatics Core, University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center; Senior Statistician University of Maryland Center for Vascular Research; Division of Gerontology and Paliative Care, 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 Cell phone 443-418-5382 ______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.