| postStratify {survey} | R Documentation |
Post-stratification adjusts the sampling and replicate weights so that
the joint distribution of a set of post-stratifying variables matches
the known population joint distribution. Use rake when
the full joint distribution is not available.
postStratify(design, strata, population, partial = FALSE, ...) ## S3 method for class 'svyrep.design': postStratify(design, strata, population, partial = FALSE, compress=NULL,...) ## S3 method for class 'survey.design': postStratify(design, strata, population, partial = FALSE, ...)
design |
A survey design with replicate weights |
strata |
A formula or data frame of post-stratifying variables |
population |
A table, xtabs or data.frame
with population frequencies |
partial |
if TRUE, ignore population strata not present in
the sample |
compress |
Attempt to compress the replicate weight matrix? When
NULL will attempt to compress if the original weight matrix
was compressed |
... |
arguments for future expansion |
The population totals can be specified as a table with the
strata variables in the margins, or as a data frame where one column
lists frequencies and the other columns list the unique combinations
of strata variables (the format produced by as.data.frame
acting on a table object). A table must have named dimnames
to indicate the variable names.
Compressing the replicate weights will take time and may even increase memory use if there is actually little redundancy in the weight matrix (in particular if the post-stratification variables have many values and cut across PSUs).
If a svydesign object is to be converted to a replication
design the post-stratification should be performed after conversion.
The variance estimate for replication designs follows the same
procedure as Valliant (1993) described for estimating totals. Rao et
al (2002) describe this procedure for estimating functions (and also
the GREG or g-calibration procedure, see calibrate)
A new survey design object.
If the sampling weights are already post-stratified there will be no
change in point estimates after postStratify but the standard
error estimates will decrease to correctly reflect the post-stratification.
See http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/peas/exemplar1.htm for an example.
Valliant R (1993) Post-stratification and conditional variance estimation. JASA 88: 89-96
Rao JNK, Yung W, Hidiroglou MA (2002) Estimating equations for the analysis of survey data using poststratification information. Sankhya 64 Series A Part 2, 364-378.
rake, calibrate for other things to do
with auxiliary information
compressWeights for information on compressing weights
data(api)
dclus1<-svydesign(id=~dnum, weights=~pw, data=apiclus1, fpc=~fpc)
rclus1<-as.svrepdesign(dclus1)
svymean(~api00, rclus1)
svytotal(~enroll, rclus1)
# post-stratify on school type
pop.types <- data.frame(stype=c("E","H","M"), Freq=c(4421,755,1018))
#or: pop.types <- xtabs(~stype, data=apipop)
#or: pop.types <- table(stype=apipop$stype)
rclus1p<-postStratify(rclus1, ~stype, pop.types)
summary(rclus1p)
svymean(~api00, rclus1p)
svytotal(~enroll, rclus1p)
## and for svydesign objects
dclus1p<-postStratify(dclus1, ~stype, pop.types)
summary(dclus1p)
svymean(~api00, dclus1p)
svytotal(~enroll, dclus1p)