Spatially-Enhanced and Entropy-Derived Contiguity Matrix (SpEED)

Installation

Requirement: C++ compilers, Rcpp, RcppArmadillo, sf
To install this package, please use the command below. It assumes that users have installed remotes or pak packages:

remotes::install_github("sigmafelix/speed")

pak::pak("sigmafelix/speed")

Concept

Calculating a Hadamard product of a Jensen-Shannon divergence matrix and a geographic distance matrix to control geographic confounding
Emulates exact matching, with mixed variables
Actual matching procedure is done with https://github.com/kouskeimai/MatchIt
Inspired by https://github.com/gpapadog/DAPSm

Future works

TODO: Rcpp level parallelization to reduce execution time
TODO: connecting/porting to Julia