Plot variables with largest imbalance

Create a plot showing those variables having the largest imbalance before matching, and those variables having the largest imbalance after matching. Requires running computeCovariateBalance first.

plotCovariateBalanceOfTopVariables(
  balance,
  n = 20,
  maxNameWidth = 100,
  title = NULL,
  fileName = NULL,
  beforeLabel = "before matching",
  afterLabel = "after matching"
)

Arguments

balance

A data frame created by the computeCovariateBalance function.

n

(Maximum) count of covariates to plot.

maxNameWidth

Covariate names longer than this number of characters are truncated to create a nicer plot.

title

Optional: the main title for the plot.

fileName

Name of the file where the plot should be saved, for example 'plot.png'. See the function ggsave in the ggplot2 package for supported file formats.

beforeLabel

Label for identifying data before matching / stratification / trimming.

afterLabel

Label for identifying data after matching / stratification / trimming.

Value

A ggplot object. Use the ggplot2::ggsave function to save to file in a different format.