[R] Handling complex sampling designs in R

[David Kaplan]

This looks fantastic.  Thanks!

David


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Tobias Verbeke wrote:
> Dear professor Kaplan,
>
>> I typically need to analyze data from large scale surveys obtained 
>> under complex sampling designs and where sampling weights are 
>> provided.  I suspect that weights can be handled for some, but not 
>> all, packages.  Can someone point me to information about which 
>> packages can incorporate sampling weights?
>
> The most feature-rich package to analyze data originating
> from complex sampling designs is the survey package
> by Thomas Lumley.
>
> A feature list (as well as a wide assortment of package
> documentation) can be found at
>
> http://faculty.washington.edu/tlumley/survey/
>
> The package itself can be installed from CRAN
>
> install.packages("survey")
>
> Kind regards,
> Tobias Verbeke
>