[R] Weight and see

[Thomas Lumley]

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