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Survey people use r already, or maybe stata, so there isn’t any need for a python package. It’s sort of trivial to implement a jackknife loop in python, if you
by larrled 1y ago
Survey people use r already, or maybe stata, so there isn’t any need for a python package. It’s sort of trivial to implement a jackknife loop in python, if you really had to. A python survey package would not be pythonic.
- specproc 1y agoYeah, I've cludged together all sorts of stuff, just to avoid working in R. Terrible use of my time. The big issue isn't necessarily around jackknife etc. (as you say, pretty trivial and I think perhaps in statsmodels), but around regression weighting and ensuring compatibility with colleague's work. The R survey package, Stata and SPSS all support things like survey design in their regressions, python does not out of the box. Even simple things like weighted frequencies end up with some pretty awkward code in Python. I can imagine a pythonic survey package that extends pandas and statsmodels, but as you say, survey people use R and there's just not a scene for it. Past life for me anyway, surveys are not my bag.