Re: [R] Design of a survey using the "survey" package
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Tom La Bone wrote: >So, am I missing something obvious here or is the > "survey" package meant only for analyzing survey data once you have it in > hand? Yes, basically. The package title is "analysis of complex survey samples", and the book is "a guide to analysis using R", and you get what it says on the tin. You might look at the 'sampling' package, which has techniques for taking samples and which is used in some simulations in the book. -thomas Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics tlum...@u.washington.eduUniversity of Washington, Seattle __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Design of a survey using the "survey" package
Tom La Bone wrote:
I have looked through the new "Complex Surveys" book and the documentation
for the "survey" package and it appears to me that there are no functions in
"survey" that help one to design a sampling scheme. For example, in the book
section 2.8 discusses the design of stratified samples, but there is no
mention of any functions in the "survey" package that implement the
discussed strategies. So, am I missing something obvious here or is the
"survey" package meant only for analyzing survey data once you have it in
hand?
Yes.
> packageDescription("survey")
Package: survey
Title: analysis of complex survey samples
[...]
For drawing samples, see e.g. the sampling package:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sampling/index.html
HTH,
Tobias
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[R] Design of a survey using the "survey" package
I have looked through the new "Complex Surveys" book and the documentation for the "survey" package and it appears to me that there are no functions in "survey" that help one to design a sampling scheme. For example, in the book section 2.8 discusses the design of stratified samples, but there is no mention of any functions in the "survey" package that implement the discussed strategies. So, am I missing something obvious here or is the "survey" package meant only for analyzing survey data once you have it in hand? Tom -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Design-of-a-survey-using-the-survey-package-tp1694075p1694075.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
