Re: [R] survey package question

2012-10-11 Thread Sebastián Daza
Hello Thomas, I use both svymean (with the expanded sample = people), and svyratio (voting unit level), using the same design: design <-svydesign(id=~station + unit, fpc=~probstation+probunits, data=sample, pps="brewer") I got different results using the same sample: svyratio (voting unit)

Re: [R] survey package question

2012-10-11 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Sebastián Daza wrote: > Hello, > > I have got a cluster sample using an election dataset where I already > had the final results of a county-specific election. I am trying to > figure out what would be the best sampling design for my data. > > The structure of the

[R] survey package question

2012-10-11 Thread Sebastián Daza
Hello, I have got a cluster sample using an election dataset where I already had the final results of a county-specific election. I am trying to figure out what would be the best sampling design for my data. The structure of the dataset is: 1) polling station (in general schools where people vo

Re: [R] survey package question

2010-02-18 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Richard Valliant wrote: Should the svyby function be able to work with svyquantile? I get the error below ... It works, but you need to either specify ci=TRUE or keep.var=FALSE. The problem is that svyquantile() by default does not produce standard errors. svyby(~api0

[R] survey package question

2010-02-18 Thread Richard Valliant
Should the svyby function be able to work with svyquantile? I get the error below ... data(api) dclus1<-svydesign(id=~dnum, weights=~pw, data=apiclus1, fpc=~fpc) svyby(~api00, design=dclus1, by = ~stype, quantiles=c(.25,.5,.75), FUN=svyquantile, na.

[R] Survey package question

2007-09-18 Thread eugen pircalabelu
Good afternoon! 1 I have a bit of a problem with the Survey package, but one that is more theoretical than practical. If for example on wishes to use some additional information which comprises of 4 variables with 7, 5,5 and 5 categories (resulting in 875 post-strata if the whole crossin