On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Anthony Damico <ajdam...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, probably not.. if your survey dataset has a complex design (like > clusters/strata), you need to include them in the `svydesign` call.
> Coercing an incorrect survey design into a replicate-weighted design will > not fix the problem of failing to account for the sampling strategy. Amen, Anthony! I would say **Fortune Nomination!** -- except that this may be a bit too technical and statistical. But it's well said, nevertheless. Thanks. -- Bert > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 12:01 AM, José Fernando Zea <jfz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have the final sample weight (expansion factor) from a socieconomic >> survey. I don't know the exact design used in the study ( (probably is a >> stratified two-stage design). >> >> To illustrate my problem I will use the next dataset which have a sample >> weight (but the design is not specified) and incorporate the design with >> svydesign and create some bootstrap replicates in order to be able to >> produce estimations. >> >> Is that correct?: >> >> >> load(url("http://knutur.at/wsmt/R/RData/small.RData")) >> library(survey) >> small.w <- svydesign(ids = ~1, data = small, weights = small$weight) >> design<-as.svrepdesign(small.w,type="bootstrap", replicates=100) >> >> >> >> Cordialmente >> Jose F. Zea >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.