Anthony, thanks for your reply.
Resetting the levels didn't work.
These are the first 25 rows of the dataset:
structure(list(id = c(51L, 52L, 53L, 54L, 55L, 56L, 57L, 58L,
59L, 60L, 61L, 62L, 63L, 64L, 65L, 66L, 67L, 68L, 69L, 70L, 71L,
73L, 74L, 75L, 76L), stratum = structure(c(1L, 4L, NA, 4L, 4L,
1L, 6L, NA, 4L, 4L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 6L, 6L, 3L, 3L, 6L, NA, 1L, 1L,
6L, 4L, 3L, 6L), .Label = c("MEst", "MAcad", "MAdm", "FEst",
"FAcad", "FAdm"), class = "factor"), expfc = c(22.8195266723633,
17.0644626617432, NA, 17.0644626617432, 17.0644626617432, 22.8195266723633,
5.1702127456665, NA, 17.0644626617432, 17.0644626617432, 22.8195266723633,
22.8195266723633, 22.8195266723633, 5.1702127456665, 5.1702127456665,
6.24137926101685, 6.24137926101685, 5.1702127456665, NA, 22.8195266723633,
22.8195266723633, 5.1702127456665, 17.0644626617432, 6.24137926101685,
5.1702127456665), d7 = structure(c(1L, 1L, NA, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
NA, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, NA, 1L, 1L, 6L, 1L,
6L, 6L), .Label = c("Soltero", "Casado", "Separado", "Divorciado",
"Viudo", "Union libre"), class = "factor"), ovt = c(NA, 93.3823547363281,
NA, NA, NA, NA, 83.8235321044922, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,
79.4117660522461, NA, NA, 19.1176471710205, NA, NA, NA, 85.2941207885742,
NA, NA, NA)), .Names = c("id", "stratum", "expfc", "d7", "ovt"
), row.names = c("1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9",
"10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15", "16", "17", "18", "19", "20",
"21", "22", "23", "24", "25"), class = "data.frame")
Regards.
Martin
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Anthony Damico <ajdam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> try resetting your levels? if that doesn't work, please dput() an example
> data set that we can test with :) thanks!
>
> sii.design <- update( sii.design , d6 = factor( d6 ) )
>
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>
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Martin Canon <martin.ca...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to calculate the weighted mean score of a quality of life
>> measure (ovt) in patients with irritable bowel syndrome by their
>> marital status (d7).
>>
>> This is a summary of the structure of the dataset:
>>
>> > str(sii.tesis)
>> 'data.frame': 1063 obs. of 75 variables:
>> $ id : int 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 ...
>> $ stratum : Factor w/ 6 levels "MEst","MAcad",..: 1 4 NA 4 4 1 6 NA 4
>> 4 ...
>> $ expfc : num 22.8 17.1 NA 17.1 17.1 ...
>> $ d6 : Factor w/ 3 levels "Estudiante","Profesor",..: 1 1 NA
>> 1 1 1 3 NA 1 1 ...
>> $ d7 : Factor w/ 6 levels "Soltero","Casado",..: 1 1 NA 1 1 1
>> 1 NA 1 1 ...
>> $ d7c : Factor w/ 2 levels "No estable","Estable": 1 1 NA 1 1
>> 1 1 NA 1 1 ...
>> $ s1cm : Factor w/ 2 levels "No","Si": 1 2 NA 1 1 1 2 NA 1 1 ...
>> $ ovt : num NA 93.4 NA NA NA ...
>>
>> I declared the sampling design:
>>
>> > sii.design <- svydesign(
>> id = ~1,
>> strata = ~stratum,
>> weights = ~expfc,
>> data = subset(sii.tesis, !is.na(stratum)))
>>
>> Then I tried to get the result:
>>
>> > svyby(~ovt, ~d7, sii.design, svymean, na.rm = TRUE, level = 0.95)
>>
>> but i get the error:
>>
>> Error in tapply(1:NROW(x), list(factor(strata)), function(index) { :
>> arguments must have same length
>>
>>
>> The length of both variables is the same. If the variable ovt exists,
>> there is a d7 match in the data frame.
>>
>> I try the same thing using another variable instead - "role" (d6) -
>> and it works.
>>
>> > svyby(~ovt, ~d6, sii.design, svymean, na.rm = TRUE, level = 0.95)
>> d6 ovt se
>> Estudiante Estudiante 71.01805 1.370569
>> Profesor Profesor 72.30923 6.518378
>> Administrativo Administrativo 75.69102 3.715050
>>
>> If I use the recategorized d7 variable (d7c, two levels only) it works
>> too:
>>
>> > svyby(~ovt, ~d7c, sii.design, svymean, na.rm = TRUE, level = 0.95)
>> d7c ovt se
>> No estable No estable 70.92344 1.37460
>> Estable Estable 74.53719 4.16954
>>
>>
>> What could be the problem?
>>
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>>
>> Martin Canon
>> Colombia, South America
>>
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