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kosukeimai / MatchIt

R package MatchIt
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Estimating run time #30

Open danieljwilson opened 5 years ago

danieljwilson commented 5 years ago

A suggestion based on a personal experience - I am matching some moderately sized data (670k rows) and using MatchIt for the first time. I had no idea how long things would take so I ran small segments of my data of varying size and timed it. I then fit a 2nd degree polynomial which I used to predict the total run time (ca. 5 hours). I found this information very useful/helpful.

Would it make sense to include a "predict" option that could be used by people running large data sets (e.g. they would run it prior to running the full dataset) to give an idea of run time? If so I'd be happy to look into implementing such a feature.

kosukeimai commented 5 years ago

Yes we always welcome contributions!