A new package `survey' for analysing complex survey samples is on CRAN. It handles stratification, clustering, and unequal sampling probabilities in descriptive statistics, glms, and general maximum likelihood fitting. The package is still under development: - it doesn't do the finite population correction to variances - it needs some real life worked examples Most importantly, though, I don't do this sort of analysis routinely, so it's possible that some part of the interface is completely insane from the viewpoint of practising survey statisticians. Now would be an excellent time to complain. -thomas Thomas Lumley Asst. Professor, Biostatistics tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
This is great! Thanks Thomas! Marwan -Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:55:12 -0800 (PST) -From: Thomas Lumley <tlumley at u.washington.edu> -To: r-announce at r-project.org -Subject: [R] survey package -A new package `survey' for analysing complex survey samples is on CRAN. I-t handles stratification, clustering, and unequal sampling probabilities -in descriptive statistics, glms, and general maximum likelihood fitting. -The package is still under development: - - it doesn't do the finite population correction to variances - - it needs some real life worked examples -Most importantly, though, I don't do this sort of analysis routinely, so -it's possible that some part of the interface is completely insane from -the viewpoint of practising survey statisticians. Now would be an -excellent time to complain. - -thomas -Thomas Lumley Asst. Professor, Biostatistics -tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- Marwan Khawaja <webfaculty.aub.edu.lb/~mk36 if you have MS Explorer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 2340 bytes Desc: not available Url : stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20030127/5b8bb282/winmail.bin