Dear all, I want to model presence/absence data of tree occurrence using a number of predictor variables. Absences of some sample points are probably wrongly specified (they should be presences) due to land use which can not be incorporated as a predictor because of some sort of arbitrariness. Some trees were logged while others were not but to both cases land use as a category would apply. However, at last I cannot decide if absences occur truly because of unsuitability of conditions at sampling location. Therefore, I want to downweight these "wrong" absences based on a certain algorithm producing decimal numbers so that they become less influential (i.d. I have a column "weights" (1>=weights>0) of the same lenght as predictors and response variable). I tried to figure this out checking the forum, but are not sure about it. I guess, the weight argument in glm-function does not do what I intend to do? Might the survey package be a solution? And if so, do I ignore all the arguments except weight to specify the svydesign? Thanks a lot for your help! Eva -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Downweighting-of-cases-in-GLM-tp16823770p16823770.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.