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I am taking a behavioral stats graduate class and the instructor is using SPSS. I'm trying to follow along in R. Recently in class we started working with scales and survey data, computing Cronbach's Alpha, reversing values for reverse coded items, etc. Also, SPSS has some built in functionality for entering the meta-data for your survey, e.g. the possible values for items, the text of

I just discovered the great piece of software that is available with the survey package. Many thanks and 'Hats off' to Thomas Lumley. While package survey covers analysis of features of objects sampled (in clusters, strata) I could not find analysis of features of repeated relationsships between sampled objects (in clusters, strata). My understanding is that it is not adequate to treat

I have looked through the new "Complex Surveys" book and the documentation for the "survey" package and it appears to me that there are no functions in "survey" that help one to design a sampling scheme. For example, in the book section 2.8 discusses the design of stratified samples, but there is no mention of any functions in the "survey" package that

Hi Everyone, I am a new R user and trying to run R jobs in batch mode. Robert Muenchen (2009), in his book "R for SAS and SPSS Users", has suggested writing a small batch file like mR.bat as shown below: "C:\Program File\R\R-2.10.0\bin\Rterm.exe" --no-restore --no-save < %1 > %1.Rout 2>& 1 Could anyone tell me in which directory or subdirectory I should

I'm trying to learn how to calibrate/postStratify/rake survey data in preparation for a large survey effort we're about to embark upon. As a working example, I have results from a small survey of ~650 respondents, ~90 response fields each. I'm trying to learn how to (properly?) apply the aforementioned functions. My data are from a bus on board survey. The expansion in the

Hello List, Could someone tell why I can't install the Himsc and survey packages for R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)? What am I doing wrong here? Thanks, Pradip > install.packages ("Hmisc", dependencies=TRUE) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Warning: unable to access index for repository http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/bin/windows/contrib/2.13

Han-Lin I don't think I have seen a reply so I will suggest that maybe you could try a different approach than what you are thinking about doing. I believe the current best practice is to use the weights as a covariate in a regression model - and bytheway - the weights are the inverse of the probabilities of selection - not the probabilities. Fundamentally, there is a difficulty in making

Hello folks, I have recently finished a pilot study of a survey and am working to complete the statistical analysis of the results in R. My Phd is technically in computer science (not statistics), although I teach basic stats and have a "decent" working knowledge of the area. With that said, my expertise in psychometrics theory and factor analysis is weaker, so I thought I would send an

Hi list members Any easy way to get standardized cronbach's alpha for a scale, as in SPSS? Thanks Steve Powell proMENTE social research research | evaluation | training & consulting Kranj?evi?eva 35, 71000 Sarajevo mobile: +387 61 215 997 | office: +387 33 556 865 | fax: +387 33 556 866 Checked by AVG Free Edition. 17:44

Hi, All Thanks to Robert Baskin, Thomas Lumley, and Spencer Graves for the valuable helps. I have learned a lot from this discussion. I put all discussions together without editing, so we can see how things are evolved. Likely, I have a lot of articles to read. As in the discussion, mixed modeling approach is a poosible but may be over-kill in my posted data analyses. I will explore other

For a sanitation project in Bangladesh I need to design a three stage sample survey to be representative of around 40 million people. I find myself suddenly with several challenges with which I struggle and would be gratefully for any help. As the questions are linked I kept them together rather than creating multiple posts 1) SURVEY DESIGN So far I designed mainly two stage cluster surveys but

Dear all, Can anyone recommend a good book or an online tutorial for using data frames in R? I want to do statistical analysis on some survey data and I can specify what I would like to do very easily in algorithmic terms. However, being a n00b to R I am struggling with getting R to execute what I want. I think all I need is some source that directs me in the right direction by walking me

Hi, is there a function in R equivalent to the "weight by"-command in SPSS? I'm working with survey datasets and the data need to be weighted by a survey/ probability/ design weight (to compensate for different probabilities to be included in the sample in each country). The weight variables are included in the datasets. I did find functions in the Hmisc and survey packages that

Hello, Using the svyplot () function, I have plotted four graphs that are saved in four different .png files. I am looking for examples how to redraw the same four graphs within grid viewports so that they stay together on a page. The goal is to create one .png file that will include all four graphs (2 rows, 2 columns). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Pradip Pradip K. Muhuri,

Estimados usuarios: Estoy intentando reproducir el ejemplo 6.4 de Thomas Lumley. Complex Survey. Editorial Wiley. 2010 (ver la página en google:

-------------------------------------------------- From: "Ahoussou Sylvie" <sylvie.ahoussou at antilles.inra.fr> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 9:48 AM To: "Thomas Lumley" <tlumley at u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: [R] Complex sampling survey _ Use of survey package > Thanks for your answer > > I think I made a mistake when I recopied the 5 first rows of

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,

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,

I have created a survey to try to understand who is interested in wxRuby, how people are using it (or want to use it), and how we can focus our development efforts to improve the project. Please take a few minutes to respond: http://rubyforge.org/survey/survey.php?group_id=35&survey_id=4 Thanks! Kevin

'surveyNG' version 0.3 is on CRAN. This package provides experimental features for survey analysis that may be incorporated in the survey package in the future. Currently there are facilities for analysis of complex surveys using (possibly large) data sets stored in a SQLite database. However, analysis facilities for these SQL-backed survey designs are rather more limited than in the