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  <dc:title>Balancing Confounder Distributions with Forest Energy Balancing</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package forestBalance version 0.1.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Estimates average treatment effects using kernel energy balancing
    with random forest similarity kernels. A multivariate random forest jointly
    models covariates, outcome, and treatment to build a similarity kernel
    between observations. This kernel is then used for energy balancing to create
    weights that control for confounding. The method is described in
    De and Huling (2025) &lt;doi:10.48550/arXiv.2512.18069&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Imports: grf (&gt;= 2.3.0), MASS, Matrix, methods, Rcpp</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppEigen</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: ggplot2, knitr, osqp, rmarkdown, testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0),
WeightIt</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Jared Huling &lt;jaredhuling@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Jared Huling [aut, cre],
  Simion De [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-04-07</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=forestBalance</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.forestBalance</dc:identifier>
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