[R] factor expansion

[Ista Zahn]

Hi José,

This sounds like a survey weight. Take a look at the survey package if
you want to calculate statistics incorporating survey weights.

Best,
Ista

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Jose Bustos Melo <jbustosmelo at yahoo.es> wrote:
> Thank you PIKAL Petr,
>
> This is used when you have a big data base of a national sample. So, this factor is a variable that uses the sample in order to obtain information about all the people of the country.  Similar of getting a real approach about what's going on in the total population. I don't know how it is called in english (my first tonge is spanish).  Perhaps, there's a function in R, but I have not idea.
> Hope it helps.
> Thanks in advance.
> José
>
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> Enviado: Miércoles 19 de septiembre de 2012 9:19
> Asunto: RE: [R] factor expansion
>
> Hi
>
> I did not see any answer yet but can you explain what you mean by factor expansion? Something like expand.grid?
>
> Petr
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
>> project.org] On Behalf Of Jose Bustos Melo
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 4:16 PM
>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: [R] factor expansion
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>> I'm trying to use a data base from SPSS and get all data representing
>> the true data. I would like to use a variable as expansion data. In our
>> data base we have the variable with the factor expansion, but we have
>> not idea how to set it in R.
>> Any idea?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> José
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