Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612040915420.21245@homer22.u.washington.edu>
Date: 2006-12-04T17:16:15Z
From: Thomas Lumley
Subject: Weight and see
In-Reply-To: <959b0bd80612040906v643aba9y127e74e2dc520684@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Jean-Baptiste Combes wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am new on this list so please forgive me if I ask thnigs that were already
> solved.
> I am a french statistician and i would like to use R in my job, but I would
> like to know (I haven't found yet) if R can take into account weights. I am
> working on a study which had to get a weight variable, in order to make the
> sample close to the population in terms of sex and universities (I am
> working on students).
>
The 'survey' package can use weights and other sampling information to get
correct population estimates.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle