Re: [R] How to do a PCA with ordered variables?

2009-09-17 Thread Stas Kolenikov
commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I use this email account for mailing lists only. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo

Re: [R] Test for stochastic dominance, non-inferiority test for distributions

2009-08-31 Thread Stas Kolenikov
-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I use this email account for mailing lists only. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https

Re: [R] Equivalent to Stata egen

2009-04-16 Thread Stas Kolenikov
. __ 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. -- Stas Kolenikov

Re: [R] Equivalent to Stata egen

2009-04-16 Thread Stas Kolenikov
Lattice, ChambersHastie SMiS and reading a lot of QA on this list. -- David Winsemius On Apr 16, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Stas Kolenikov wrote: http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?egen -- it creates new variables dealing with some special relatively non-standard tasks that don't boil down to a one

Re: [R] import from stata

2009-04-14 Thread Stas Kolenikov
the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I use this email account for mailing lists only

Re: [R] Multilevel Modeling using R

2009-03-17 Thread Stas Kolenikov
the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I use this email account for mailing lists only. __ R

Re: [R] bootstrapped eigenvector method following prcomp

2009-01-19 Thread Stas Kolenikov
to have some guidline for interpretation rather than making decisions arbitrarily. I tried to look everywhere before posting here. I would be very thankful for any help, -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I use this email account for mailing lists only

Re: [R] polychoric correlation: issue with coefficient sign

2009-01-13 Thread Stas Kolenikov
, but a negative one, isn't it? Why does the polychoric correlation returns a positive coefficient? What does it mean for the rest of the coefficients, should i trust them? I have to say I'm new to R and not very strong in statistics, I hope I haven't posted a stupid question... -- Stas

Re: [R] R in the NY Times

2009-01-08 Thread Stas Kolenikov
, and are commercial secrets, anyway. -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I use this email account for mailing lists only. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read

Re: [R] survey statistics, rate/proportions with standard errors

2009-01-08 Thread Stas Kolenikov
rate. There are means, totals, ratios, as well as regression/GLM estimation procedures using Taylor series, jackknife, and the bootstrap. Try install.packages(survey) -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I use this email account for mailing lists only

Re: [R] Functions in R like lincom and nlcom of Stata

2008-12-13 Thread Stas Kolenikov
is doing, but suspect that you should be looking at how R handles contrasts. The help pages reference ch 2 of Statistical Models in S. The search at the console prompt would be: ?C ?contrasts ?se.contrast ?model.tables -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small

Re: [R] ordered logistic regression of survey data with missing variables

2008-11-03 Thread Stas Kolenikov
of the multiple imputation packages in R? -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I use this email account for mailing lists only. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read

Re: [R] Survey Design / Rake questions

2008-08-20 Thread Stas Kolenikov
). -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I use this email account for mailing lists only. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R

Re: [R] Quantile regression with complex survey data

2008-08-20 Thread Stas Kolenikov
of the response (or any other) variable, but the conditional distributions may simply be unavailable because there are no units in the population satisfying the conditions. -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I use this email account for mailing lists only

Re: [R] Design-consistent variance estimate

2008-08-18 Thread Stas Kolenikov
. Thanks, I'll keep educational statistics examples in mind for those kinds of designs! -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I use this email account for mailing lists only. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https

Re: [R] Survey Design / Rake questions

2008-08-18 Thread Stas Kolenikov
how I've described the survey/weighting, is my call to svydesign correct? I'm not sure I understand just what a survey design is. Where can I read up on this? What's a good reference for such things as PSUs, cluster sampling, and so on. -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http

Re: [R] Design-consistent variance estimate

2008-08-15 Thread Stas Kolenikov
from svymean() also agree with results I get from SAS proc surveymeans, so, this suggests I am misunderstanding something. -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I use this email account for mailing lists only. __ R

Re: [R] Design-consistent variance estimate

2008-08-15 Thread Stas Kolenikov
. SAS PROC SVYMEANS is; Stata's -svy: mean- is, but in R, most of the stuff is user-contributed :)). See if Tom Lumley has any comments about whether his package supports 100% fpc :)) -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I use this email account for mailing

[R] RPM-style install (SLED 10.1)

2008-05-12 Thread Stas Kolenikov
to compile R from 2.6.2 sources in the meantime, but that's painful for a Linux newbie like me on a brand-new computer that does not necessarily have all the packages. I almost want to switch to Ubuntu as R installation back there was a single click :)) -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http

Re: [R] RPM-style install (SLED 10.1)

2008-05-12 Thread Stas Kolenikov
and installed a couple flavours (don't remember how many) of fortran and finally it went through. Right now, in my /usr/lib64, i have libgfortran.so.2.0.0. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stas Kolenikov Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 7:33 AM

Re: [R] quasi-random sequences

2008-04-26 Thread Stas Kolenikov
and repulsive at short distances is a better way? I have a vague recollection of hearing that somewhere to position points evenly on a sphere. -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I don't check Gmail account regularly

Re: [R] Using R in a university course: dealing with proposal comments

2008-02-11 Thread Stas Kolenikov
On 2/11/08, Paul Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stas Kolenikov wrote: ... Training researchers of tomorrow might be great, but ifyour students get on the market in the end of the semester, they won't have the luxury of waiting until R becomes THE package of choice. Not being

Re: [R] Using R in a university course: dealing with proposal comments

2008-02-11 Thread Stas Kolenikov
becomes THE package of choice. -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: Please do not reply to my Gmail address as I don't check it regularly. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list