A Coding Guide to Survey Bias Correction Using Facebook Research Balance with IPW CBPS Ranking and Post Stratification Methods
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In this tutorial, we walk through a complete, end-to-end workflow for correcting bias in survey data using the balance library. We simulate a realistic population, deliberately introduce sampling bias, and then apply multiple re-weighting techniques to recover unbiased estimates. We focus on four widely used methods: Inverse Probability Weighting (IPW), Covariate Balancing Propensity Scores (CBPS)
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We begin by installing the balance package and importing all the required libraries for data manipulation and visualization. We set a random seed to ensure reproducibility and configure plotting aesthetics for clearer diagnostics. This setup prepares a clean, consistent environment for running the full reweighting workflow.
We simulate a realistic population dataset with demographic and socioeconomic features along with an outcome variable. We then introduce sampling bias by preferentially selecting younger, more educated, and urban individuals to mimic real-world survey bias. Finally, we compare the naive sample mean to the true population mean to highlight bias.
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