Closed Germancampos closed 2 years ago
How negative are the weights?
Sometimes you'll end up with very small negative weights because the optimization problem is only solved up to a certain tolerance. You can just treat those as 0. For example the default for multisynth
only solves up to 1e-4
tolerance, so weights that are between 0 and -1e-4
could show up, but they're basically zero.
Yes, negative weights are very small. Okay, so I'll take them as zeros. Thank you very much for your help.
Hello everyone,
I'm replicating the code from the "the vignette for staggered adoption" section and I'm having a problem because I don't understand the weights. I extract the weights from the synthetic control with "ppool_syn2$weights", but some weights are negative. I add all the weights for each treated unit and the sum if gives a result of 1 for all the treated units. I compare these weights with figure B.9 of the annex to the paper "SYNTHETIC CONTROLS WITH STAGGERED ADOPTION" and I do not obtain the same results. In the paper it is indicated that the weights must be non-negative but I do get negative weights. Could someone please explain to me why this happens?