Please, using the Survey package, how do you test the mean difference hypotheses? i.e. if the sample mean of 2003 is the same in 2008 for a certain variable. I'm working with PNAD data
Please, using the Survey package, how do you test the mean difference hypotheses? i.e. if the sample mean of 2003 is the same in 2008 for a certain variable. I'm working with PNAD data
The function you will have to use is called svyttest
.
In the examples, when you use help(svytest)
it does as follows:
data(api)
dclus2<-svydesign(id=~dnum+snum, fpc=~fpc1+fpc2, data=apiclus2)
svyttest(enroll~comp.imp, dclus2)
In this example he compares the average number of students enrolled in American schools who have or have not met a "measure of comparable improvement."
In your case you should have an object created by the svydesign
function right?
So to test just use the svyttest
function as follows:
svyttest(variavel_que_vc_quer_comparar~ano_como_fator, objeto_svydesign)
In any case, it would be interesting if you provided a small sample of your data to anyone trying to respond, to see if it is working for your problem.