2010/1/16 Thomas Lumley <[email protected]>: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Vera wrote: > >> Thanks for your help so far, everyone. >> >> Thomas: I haven't looked very deep into the survey package yet, so I >> don't know if what I'm looking for is actually missing or if I just >> haven't found it yet. >> What is "missing", from my point of view at the moment, is some kind >> of global weighting function that allows me to set a weight and then >> just perform different kinds of analyses without thinking about it any >> more. > > There isn't anything like this, because it isn't possible. Some analyses > can't sensibly be done with sampling weights; for others you can get point > estimates but it is hard to get standard errors.
I see, having read some papers about weighting now. What I described is possible in other statistics software, so I was kind of mislead into thinking it couldn't be that complicated. (I guess all analyses, where appropriate, are done with weighted data; if you don't specify a weight variable, all weights are 1 by default). I guess it's hard at first to go from point-and-click-analyses to a deeper understanding of the procedures. Thank you very much for your help. -Vera ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list 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.
