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I need some guidance from someone who is familiar/has some experience with the survey package. The data that I am using is from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (www.meps.ahrq.gov <http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/> ). The STRATA and PSU variables are varstr01 and varpsu01 respectively. When I try to specify them with the svydesign function I get an error message. An excerpt of my session

Is there any such thing as a program file in R? That is, is it possible to compile and save code for performing data management and analytic tasks for a given project into a single/multiple file(s) (i.e., like a script file (S-Plus), a do file (STATA), or a *.sas file (SAS))? Any words of wisdom or a point in the direction of some documentation would be helpful. If it is not possible to work

Is there any existing function for creating contingency tables that will display counts, row, column, and cell percentages in the same tables....anything similar to crosstabs in S? Marc W. Zodet, MS Health Statistician Center for Cost and Financing Studies Division of Statistical Research and Methods 2101 East Jefferson Street, Suite 500 Rockville, Maryland 20852 Phone: 301-594-7072 Fax:

Is there a way to associate text descriptions with variables in a data.frame? For example... Let's say that in my data.frame I have a variable named var1. var1 represents the responses to the question "When was the last time you saw your physician?" When I tabulate the variable var1 I'd like the output to be a bit more descriptive and contain the more descriptive

What is the best way to sort a dataframe? For example, how would I go about sorting a dataframe (with variables V1-V5) by ascending V1, V2 and descending V3 while retaining V4 and V5. Also, is there a relatively easy way by which to re-order my columns? Thank you for your time. Marc Marc Zodet [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

How do I rotate 3D plots/surfaces generated by either cloud or wireframe? Thanks. Marc Marc W. Zodet, MS Health Statistician Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Is there a function in R which performs stepwise estimation in ways similar to SAS/STATA (i.e., allows the analyst to specify the significance levels for removal/addition of terms). I've been asked to evaluate two final models: one resulting from a backwards selection in R (stepAIC) and one resulting from a backwards selection using PROC LOGISTIC in SAS. The final terms are slightly

I'm attempting to select a model using stepAIC. I want to use a forward selection procedure. I have specified a "scope" option, but must not be understanding how this works. My results indicate that the procedure begins and ends with the "full" model (i.e., all 17 independent variables)...not what I expected. Could someone please point out what I'm not

Dear All, I am economist and working on poverty / income inequality. I need descriptive statitics like the ratio of education expentitures between different income quintiles where each household has a different weight. After a bit of google search I found 'Hmisc' and 'quantreg' libraries for weighted quantiles. The problem is that these packages give me only weighted quintiles;

I am trying to use tapply to estimate the average wage in a set of Year*Education cells using sampling weights, as well as some other other statistics using the weights). I am having trouble trying to figure out how to pass the weights to the function, using: > tapply(wage,list(Educc,Year),weighted.mean, w=weight) whieh produces warnings of the type: 3: longer object length is not a

I'm attempting to use stepAIC to select a model through a forward procedure. I want to consider up to all 3-way interactions. I've attempted to use the following code: m2.Fwd3way <- stepAIC(m1.Ionly, direction="forward", scope=list(upper=~(var1 + var2 + var3 + var4)^3, lower=~1)) When I submit this the trace indicates that only 2-way

Dear R-users, I intend to do a spatial analysis on the genetic structuring within a population. For this I had thought to prepare a kernel density estimate map showing the spatial distribution of individuals, while incorporating the genetic distances among individuals. I have a dataset of locations of N unique individuals (XY-coordinates) and an NxN matrix with the genetic distances given as a

Hi All, I have some data where I am doing fairly simple calculations, nothing more than adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. I’m running into a problem when I divide one variable by another and when they’re both 0 I get NaN. I realize that if you divide a non-zero by 0 then you get Inf, which is, of course, correct. But in my case I never get Inf, just NaN because of the structure

This smells like a bug to me. The error is triggered by the line: variables <- eval(predvars, data, env) inside model.frame.default(). At that point, na.action has not been applied, so poly() ended being called on data that still contains missing values. The qr() that issued the error is for generating the orthogonal basis when evaluating poly(), not for fitting the linear model itself.

This smells like a bug to me. The error is triggered by the line: variables <- eval(predvars, data, env) inside model.frame.default(). At that point, na.action has not been applied, so poly() ended being called on data that still contains missing values. The qr() that issued the error is for generating the orthogonal basis when evaluating poly(), not for fitting the linear model itself.

Hello, Hierarchical factors are a very common data structure. For instance, one might have municipalities within states within countries within continents. Other examples include occupational codes, biological species, software types (R within statistical software within analytical software), etc. Such data structures commonly use hierarchical coding systems. For example, the 2007 North

Hi, since nobody answered to my first message, I try to explain my problem more clearly and more general this time: I have a data set in my R package "micEcon", which has many variables (82). Therefore, I would like to avoid to describe all variables in the "\format" section of the documentation (.Rd file). However, doing this lets "R CMD check" complain about

Hi, I am new to R. My problem is with the ordered logistic model. Here is my question: Generate an order discrete variable using the variable wrwage1 = wages in first full calendar quarter after benefit application in the following way: * wage*1*Ordered *= 1 *if*0 *· wrwage*1 *< *1000 2 *if*1000 *· wrwage*1 *< *2000 3 *if*2000 *· wrwage*1 *< *3000 4 *if*3000 *· wrwage*1 *<

Suppose we observe N individuals, for each of which we have a time-series. How do we correctly create a lagged value of the time-series variable? As an example, suppose I create: A <- data.frame(year=rep(c(1980:1984),3), person= factor(sort(rep(1:3,5))), wage=c(rnorm(15))) > A year person wage 1 1980 1 0.17923212 2 1981

Dear all, I have 1980~1990 eleven datas, every year have three variables, wage gender(1=female, 2=male) race(1=black, 2=white) My original commands is: fig2b<-reldist(y=mu1990$wage,yo=mu1980$wage,.......) I have three questions: 1. If I want to appoint y=women's wage in 1990 yo=women's wage in 1980 2. If I want to appoint y=women's wage in