The workflow in this repository was created to assist with establishing matched groups. We welcome researchers to use these steps as a template or develop their own depending on their own study questions and design. If you would like to share your workflow(s) here, please contact us and we would be happy to create a repository here that includes a variety of examples.
We encourage researchers to make any version of this process a shared resource for all team members to access and edit. It would be ideal to implement this workflow as a working draft during study planning, *prior to data analyses of study outcome variables*. However, it can still be a useful resource at the stage of exploratory analyses or re-analysis of data.
A similar workflow using propensity scores is available at https://janetybang.github.io/propensity_scores/.