svyglm.nb {sjstats}R Documentation

Survey-weighted negative binomial generalised linear model

Description

svyglm.nb() is an extension to the survey-package to fit survey-weighted negative binomial models. It uses svymle to fit sampling-weighted maximum likelihood estimates, based on starting values provided by glm.nb, as proposed by Lumley (2010, pp249).

Usage

svyglm.nb(formula, design, ...)

Arguments

formula

An object of class formula, i.e. a symbolic description of the model to be fitted. See 'Details' in glm.

design

An object of class svydesign, providing a specification of the survey design.

...

Other arguments passed down to glm.nb.

Details

For details on the computation method, see Lumley (2010), Appendix E (especially 254ff.)

sjstats implements following S3-methods for svyglm.nb-objects: family(), model.frame(), formula(), print(), predict() and residuals(). However, these functions have some limitations:

Value

An object of class svymle and svyglm.nb, with some additional information about the model.

References

Lumley T (2010). Complex Surveys: a guide to analysis using R. Wiley

Examples

# ------------------------------------------
# This example reproduces the results from
# Lumley 2010, figure E.7 (Appendix E, p256)
# ------------------------------------------
library(survey)
data(nhanes_sample)

# create survey design
des <- svydesign(
  id = ~SDMVPSU,
  strat = ~SDMVSTRA,
  weights = ~WTINT2YR,
  nest = TRUE,
  data = nhanes_sample
)

# fit negative binomial regression
fit <- svyglm.nb(total ~ factor(RIAGENDR) * (log(age) + factor(RIDRETH1)), des)

# print coefficients and standard errors
fit


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