David Winsemius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in 
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

> "Daniel Oberski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 
> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> Does anybody happen to know if it is possible to use the survey
>> package to estimate a covariance matrix from a complex survey?
>> 
>> I have design weights and clusters (no strata), and want to get a
>> covariance matrix with preferably the effective sample size or else
>> an estimate of the variance-covariance matrix of the covariance
>> matrix ("asymptotic covariance matrix"). Is this possible?
> 
> Have you looked at Lumley's survey package?
> 
> <http://faculty.washington.edu/tlumley/survey/>
> 

Or more specifically:
<http://faculty.washington.edu/tlumley/survey/html/svyglm.html>

predict() returns a variance-covariance matrix by default. My thought was 
that newdata equal to estimated means should yield the vcov that you 
desired.

-- 
David Winsemius

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