Research Article
Impacts of Soil and Water Management Measures on Crop Production and Farm Income of Rural Households in the Damota Area Districts, Southern Ethiopia
Table 9
Performance of different algorithms.
| | Marching estimator | Performance criteria | | Balancing test | Pseudo-R2 | Mean bias | Matched sample size |
| | Nearest neighbor | | Nearest neighbor (1) | 5 | 0.032 | 12.9 | 330 | | Nearest neighbor (2) | 3 | 0.065 | 20.9 | 330 | | Nearest neighbor (3) | 5 | 0.057 | 19.7 | 330 | | Nearest neighbor (4) | 4 | 0.046 | 14.4 | 330 | | Nearest neighbor (5) | 4 | 0.051 | 16.2 | 330 |
| | Caliper | | Caliper 0.1 | 5 | 0.032 | 12.9 | 330 | | Caliper 0.25 | 5 | 0.032 | 12.9 | 330 | | Caliper 0.5 | 5 | 0.032 | 12.9 | 330 |
| | Kernel | | Kernel (bw0.01) | 6 | 0.038 | 13.5 | 293 | | Kernel (bw0.1) | 5 | 0.047 | 16.6 | 330 | | Kernel (bw0.25) | 4 | 0.064 | 16.1 | 330 | | Kernel (bw0.5) | 6 | 0.03 | 12.8 | 330 |
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Source: own survey results (2019). The number of insignificant explanatory variables between the matched groups. |
