weights_tests {jtools}

Test whether sampling weights are needed

Description

Use the tests proposed in Pfeffermann and Sverchkov (1999) and DuMouchel and Duncan (1983) to check whether a regression model is specified correctly without weights.

Usage

weights_tests(
  model,
  weights,
  data,
  model_output = TRUE,
  test = NULL,
  sims = 1000,
  digits = getOption("jtools-digits", default = 2)
)

Arguments

model

The fitted model, without weights

weights

The name of the weights column in model's data frame or a vector of weights equal in length to the number of observations included in model.

data

The data frame with the data fed to the fitted model and the weights

model_output

Should a summary of the model with weights as predictor be printed? Default is TRUE, but you may not want it if you are trying to declutter a document.

test

Which type of test should be used in the ANOVA? The default, NULL, chooses based on the model type ("F" for linear models). This argument is passed to anova.

sims

The number of bootstrap simulations to use in estimating the variance of the residual correlation. Default is 1000, but for publications or when computing power/time is sufficient, a higher number is better.

digits

An integer specifying the number of digits past the decimal to report in the output. Default is 3. You can change the default number of digits for all jtools functions with options("jtools-digits" = digits) where digits is the desired number.

Details

This function is a wrapper for the two tests implemented in this package that test whether your regression model is correctly specified. The first is wgttest, an R adaptation of the Stata macro of the same name. This test can otherwise be referred to as the DuMouchel-Duncan test. The other test is the Pfeffermann-Sverchkov test, which can be accessed directly with pf_sv_test.

For more details on each, visit the documentation on the respective functions. This function just runs each of them for you.

References

DuMouchel, W. H. & Duncan, D.J. (1983). Using sample survey weights in multiple regression analyses of stratified samples. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 78. 535-543.

Nordberg, L. (1989). Generalized linear modeling of sample survey data. Journal of Official Statistics; Stockholm, 5, 223-239.

Pfeffermann, D., & Sverchkov, M. (1999). Parametric and semi-parametric estimation of regression models fitted to survey data. Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics, 61. 166-186.

See Also

Other survey tools: pf_sv_test(), svycor(), svysd(), wgttest()

Examples

# Note: This is a contrived example to show how the function works,
# not a case with actual sammpling weights from a survey vendor
if (requireNamespace("boot")) {
  states <- as.data.frame(state.x77)
  set.seed(100)
  states$wts <- runif(50, 0, 3)
  fit <- lm(Murder ~ Illiteracy + Frost, data = states)
  weights_tests(model = fit, data = states, weights = wts, sims = 100)
}