[R] large survey data set

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 rpietro at duke.edu wrote:

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> Hello,
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> I am analyzing a weighted, stratified, clustered survey data set
> with approximately 1 million observations and 50 variables.
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> I am new to R (I'm a Stata user), and so far
> couldn't find any documentation on how to handle survey data. In
> other words, is there a specific package to handle a combination of
> weigths, clusters and strata. I am also struggling to
> handle such a large data set. Any suggestions and/or references regarding
> these two issues would be greatly appreciated.
>

I don't think there is such a package. Most of the R functions that handle
weights do variance weighting rather than probability weighting.


	-thomas

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