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Dear All, I am learning the ropes about logistic regression in R. I found some interesting examples http://bit.ly/Vq4GgX http://bit.ly/W9fUTg http://bit.ly/UfK73e but I am a bit lost. I have several questions. 1) For instance, what is the difference between glm.out = glm(response ~ poverty + gender, family=binomial(logit), data=mydata) and glm.out = glm(response ~ poverty * gender,

I'm resending this message because I did not include a subject line in my first posting. Apologies for the inconvenience! Tanja > Hello, > > I'm trying to fit a generalized linear mixed model to estimate diabetes prevalence at US county level. To do this I'm using the glmer() function in package lme4. I can fit relatively simple models (i.e. few covariates) but when

Hi all, I've searched high and low on this and found nothing of help. I'm using v2.6.2 and trying to write a function that will count how many people from a dataset fall under a poverty line of 50% of the mean income. a9 is my 100-element vector of incomes. I want pa9 to be my vector that counts how many of these are classed as in poverty. My problem is that my command if(a9[i] <

Hello, I'm trying to fit a generalized linear mixed model to estimate diabetes prevalence at US county level. To do this I'm using the glmer() function in package lme4. I can fit relatively simple models (i.e. few covariates) but when expanding the number of covariates I usually encounter the following error message. gm8 <-

Dear R users, Consider the first two columns of a data frame like this: > z[,1:2] x y 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 1 4 Imagine that y represents the times that the value x happens in a population. But z is not exactly a frequency table, because in z we have x=1 twice. So, the x=1 in the first line and the x=1 in the fourth are not the same, differing according to a third variable in

Dear useRs, my last announcement is an update of the ineq package for measuring inequality, concentration and poverty. The current version is now 0.2-4. Thanks to suggestions from Rein Halbersma the Pen() function for plotting Pen's parade was improved and now allows for much more flexibility. See the help page for examples. Best wishes, Z ------------- Package: ineq Version: 0.2-4 Date:

Dear useRs, my last announcement is an update of the ineq package for measuring inequality, concentration and poverty. The current version is now 0.2-4. Thanks to suggestions from Rein Halbersma the Pen() function for plotting Pen's parade was improved and now allows for much more flexibility. See the help page for examples. Best wishes, Z ------------- Package: ineq Version: 0.2-4 Date:

Hello, I've started using R few months ago and I really like it. I need to estimate standard deviation of certain statistics (some measures of poverty). I found a really simple program, and I just need to check whether it's OK and really calculates what it's supposed to. Let's suppose e. g. head-count index (as one of the simplest measures of poverty) which is calculated as a

Hello list, I'm having some difficulty getting rJava to load in littler. Even after a R CMD javareconf and a reinstall of littler, I get this: jlaing at xenon:~$ r -e "require(rJava)" Loading required package: rJava Loading required package: methods Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rJava', details: call: dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) error: unable

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'm on too many lists already, so haven't joined this one. If you have things that I really need to know, please reply or CC me off-list. I often work through masqueraded (NAT) links, and find that the following patch is able to keep an idle ssh link up where nothing else will. Please consider making it a part of the main ssh package.

FAO Statistical Yearbook consultant The Food and Agriculture Organization (www.fao.org) is a United Nations agency that leads international efforts to reduce hunger in the world. This is achieved through three main goals: the eradication of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition; the elimination of poverty and the driving forward of economic and social progress for all; and, the sustainable

Dear All, I'am looking for examples showing that correlation does not imply causality, the targeted audience consists of undergraduate students (their first year at the university but in the BioMathStat track). All practicals are under R. I was able to extract this from R datasets: ### begin data(sunspots) data(lynx) spots <- window(sunspots, freq = 1, start = 1880, end = 1900) lnx <-

My sincerest apologies, as this is a very elementary problem, but I have searched through archives and FAQs and on the web, and I am at the end of my own resources. I need to do analysis of a spatial point process occuring with four counties, using spatstat. I've had no trouble importing the shapefiles, but I can't seem to figure out what I need to do in order to use the boundary as an

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could provide me with help in entering the attached dataset into R? I've been having a hard time in trying to figure out how to assemble it into both a frequency table and a bar graph within R. I've been trying to present the way I have the data arranged in Excel Spreadsheet into R. I am uncertain what the correct commands and exact techniques are into

Dear Amy, I have the same question as Mark. Is it possible to work from abroad - remotely? Best regards, Martins On 6 January 2015 at 19:32, Mark LoPresti <marklopresti at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Amy, > > one key question: can this position work remotely? > Thank you, > Mark LoPresti > From: "Heyman, Amy (ESS)" <Amy.Heyman at fao.org> > To:

Hi, I'm moving (slowly) to R from STATA. I often have need to move through a set of tasks across a series of years. In this case, you can see that I'm mimicking -reshape- in STATA, but I'm less interested in the task than in programming R. library(foreign) mydata<-read.dta("z:\example.dta") for (y in 2000:2002) {

I've been translating an economic model from Python into R, and I thought members of the list would like to see a presentation I've written about it. I've blogged this at http://www.j-paine.org/blog/2018/03/r-taxben-a-microsimulation-economic-model-in-r.html , and the presentation itself is a slideshow at http://www.j-paine.org/rtaxben/R/reveal/rtaxben.html . The slideshow is written

hi i was involved in a webcast for the UK Make Poverty History event on July 2nd and have analyzed my Icecast logs using Sawmill (http://www.sawmill.net/) which supports Icecast logs: http://www.sawmill.net/formats/ice_cast.html looking at the data below i have been asked what the difference is between 'Page Views' and 'Visitors' with regard to Icecast logs: Page Hits Page

Job Description: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations based in Rome is seeking a talented statistician to join the Statistics division. We value people with technical skills, and in particular individuals who are able to translate numbers to actions and to make an impact on the world. In this role, you will be: -?? Developing R methods in collaboration with FAO