similar to: survey: estimating a covariance matrix

Hi R users, I'm using the survey package to calculate summary statistics for a large health survey (the Demographic and Health Survey for Honduras, 2006), and when I try to calculate the variances for several variables, I get negative numbers. I thought it may be my data, so I ran the example on the help page: data(api) ## one-stage cluster sample dclus1<-svydesign(id=~dnum, weights=~pw,

I am facing a problem with a function in survey package. The function svyvar gives the estimated population variance from a given sampling scheme. I am working with a data having more than four continuous variables. In order to have have population total for all those cont. variables I have written in the following format svyvar(~var1+var2+var3+var4+var5+var6,data) ; var1,var2,...,var6 are 6

Hi all I would like to perform a logistic regression analysis on some complex survey data with R, but am not sure if there are functions within R that will enable me to do so. Also, are there any extensions of the "cor" function that would enable me to incorporate survey weights when calculating correlation coefficients for bivariate data. Any help on this matter will be greatly

Dear list, I have a data file which includes, alongside various variables representing questionnaire scores, a variable for survey weights computed as the number of observations in the sample drawn from that group divided by the number of observations in the population in the group. I need to calculate a covariance matrix of the questionnaire scores for use in sem. How do I apply the weights?

Hello, svyvar from the survey package computes variances (with standard errors) from survey design objects. Is there any way to compute standard deviations and their standard errors in a similar manner? Thanks a lot, Sebastian

Hello, I'm running R 2.14.1 on OS X (x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)), with version 3.28 of Thomas Lumley's survey package. I was using predict() from svyglm(). E.g.: data(api) dstrat<-svydesign(id=~1,strata=~stype, weights=~pw, data=apistrat, fpc=~fpc) out <- svyglm(sch.wide~ell+mobility, design=dstrat, family=quasibinomial()) pred.df <-

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

-------------------------------------------------- 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

Good afternoon! I'm trying to use the survey package to get a better point of view for my data, but i need some piece of advice: i have some data from a survey which has been stratified using 2 criteria: region(7 values), size of locality(5 values) Using the survey pakage how can i define in a correct way this design (taking into account all 4 strata not just one as in the Survey

Good afternoon! I'm trying to use the Survey package for a stratified sample which has 4 criteria on which the stratification is based. I would like to get the corrected weights and for every element i get a weight of 1 E.g: tipping design <- svydesign (id=~1, strata= ~regiune + size_loc + age_rec_hhh + size_hh, data= tabel) and then weights(design) gives

Hi, I have been experimenting with the new Survey package. Specifically, I was trying to use some of the functions on the public-use survey data from NHIS (2000 Sample Adult file). Error 1): The first error I get is when I try to specify the complex survey design. nhis.design<-svydesign(ids=~psu, probs=~probs, strata=~strata, data=nhis.df, check.strata=TRUE) Error in svydesign(ids =

Hello I'm trying to get the proportion "true" for dichotomous variable for various subgroups in a survey. This works fine, but obviously doesn't give proportions directly: svytable(~SurvYear+problem.vandal, seh.dsn, round=TRUE) problem.vandal SurvYear FALSE TRUE 1995 8906 786 1997 17164 2494 1998 17890 1921 1999 18322 1669 2001 17623 2122 ...

First, I appoligise for the rooky question, but... I'm trying to obtain standard errors, confidence intervals, etc. from a sample design and have been trouble getting the results for anything other than the basic total or mean for the overall survey from the survey package. For example, using the following dataset, strata,cluster,vol A,1,18.58556192 A,1,12.55175443 A,1,21.65882438

Hi, I'm trying to get standard errors for some of the variables in my data frame. One of the questions on my survey is whether faculty coordinate across curriculum to include Arts Education as subject matter. All the responses are coded in zeros and ones obviously. For some of the other variables I have a 2 for those that responded with "Don't Know". I'm getting NA for

Hello, all. I wanted to use the "survey" package to analyze data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, and am having some difficulty translating the analysis keywords from one package (Stata) to the other (R). The data were collected using a multistage probability sampling, and there are variables included to identify the sampling units and weights. Documentation from the

I have survey data that I am working on. I need to make some multi-way tables and regression analyses on the data. After attaching the data, this is the code I use for tables for four variables (sweight is the weight variable): > a <- xtabs(sweight~research.area + gender + a2n2 + age) > tmp <- ftable(a) Is this correct? I don't think I need to use the strata and cluster

Hi dears, I expect that Mr Thomas Lumley will read this message. I have data from a complexe stratified survey. The population is divide in 12 regions and a region consist to and urban area and rural one. there to region just with urbain area. stratification variable is a combinaison of region and area type (urban/rural) In rural area, subdivision are sample with probabilties proporionnal to

Hi all, I've been trying to get a large (12mb) Stata survey database into R. I managed that, but when I attach survey weights, something goes wrong. The error message is: object dchina not found. Here's the script: library(car) library(foreign) library(survey) China <- read.dta("C:/final07c2.dta") attach(China) data(China)

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hello, I am analyzing a weighted, stratified, clustered survey data set with approximately 1 million observations and 50 variables. I am new to R (I'm a Stata user), and so far couldn't find any documentation on how to handle survey data. In other words, is there a specific package to handle a combination of weigths, clusters and strata. I am also

Hello! I am using for logistic regression in survey data the svyglm procedure. I wondered how does the strata effect estimates SE (in addition to the weights given proportional to population size). I know that for simple regression measurements of each strata is assumed to have different variance. But in a logistic model this is not the case. Can anyone help me here? Thank you Ron [[alternative