[R] density plot for weighted data

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Tue Aug 2 19:06:43 CEST 2011


On Aug 2, 2011, at 12:51 PM, r student wrote:

> I'm trying to create a density plot using census data, where the
> weights don't sum to 1.
>
>
>> plot(density(oh$FINCP,weights=oh$PWGTP))
>
>
> Warning message:
> In density.default(oh$FINCP, weights = oh$PWGTP) :
>  sum(weights) != 1  -- will not get true density
>
>
> How would I go about doing this?

Wouldn't you just divide by the sum?

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT



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