Message-ID: <F98822A6-51B2-4637-9D60-59E2DB4F07B9@comcast.net>
Date: 2011-12-05T16:43:38Z
From: David Winsemius
Subject: Weighting and recodification
In-Reply-To: <1323098347580-4160876.post@n4.nabble.com>
On Dec 5, 2011, at 10:19 AM, SilvaForever wrote:
> I have a question that is more statistical than r-specific
>
> I have to recode a variable into quartiles, and I have weighted
> individuals.
> To calculate the quartiles that will serve me to recode the
> variable, should
> I use the weight or not?
I would think that an affirmative answer should raise the follow-on
question of "how", and an R-specific answer would be `wtd.quantile`
in the Hmisc package.
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT