Here is a paper that gives an review of matching

Elizabeth A. Stuart. (2010) Matching Methods for Causal Inference: A
Review and a Look Forward.  Statistical Science; 25(1):1-21.

In the paper, there is a list of R packages that does matching.

hope this helps.


On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Bill Hyman <billhyman1@yahoo.com> wrote:

> May I ask a clinical question? For a trial, we have a treatment group of
> small
> size, say 30 patients. We want to selectmatching control patients from a
> bigger
> group (100 patients) in terms of several clinical variables, such as age,
> tumor
> stage etc. This practice is to select the closest matching set of control
> cases.
> I wonder if R has any routine or package that can help with this problem.
> Thank
> you. Looking forward...
>
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