Designing and Weighting Survey Samples

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Documentation for package ‘PracTools’ version 1.4.3

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BW2stagePPS	Relvariance components for 2-stage sample
BW2stagePPSe	Estimated relvariance components for 2-stage sample
BW2stageSRS	Relvariance components for 2-stage sample
BW3stagePPS	Relvariance components for 3-stage sample
BW3stagePPSe	Estimated relvariance components for 3-stage sample
clusOpt2	Compute optimal sample sizes for a two-stage sample
clusOpt2fixedPSU	Optimal number of sample elements per PSU in a two-stage sample when the sample of PSUs is fixed
clusOpt3	Compute optimal sample sizes for a three-stage sample
clusOpt3fixedPSU	Compute optimal number of sample secondary sampling units (SSUs) and elements per SSU for a fixed set of primary sampling units (PSUs) in a three-stage sample
CompMOS	Compute a composite measure of size for domain-based two-stage sampling
CVcalc2	Coefficient of variation of an estimated total in a 2-stage sample
CVcalc3	Coefficient of variation of an estimated total in a 3-stage sample
deff	Design effects of various types
deffCR	Chen-Rust design effect
deffH	Henry design effect for _pps_ sampling and GREG estimation of totals
deffK	Kish design effect
deffS	Spencer design effect for an estimated total from a _pps_ sample
Domainy1y2	Domain data
dub	Sample sizes for a double sampling design
gamEst	Estimate variance model parameter gamma
gammaFit	Iteratively estimate variance model parameter gamma
GeoDistMOS	Split geographic PSUs based on a measure of size threshold
GeoDistPSU	Form PSUs based on geographic distances
GeoMinMOS	Check geographic PSUs to determine whether any are less than minimum measure of size threshold
HMT	Generate an HMT population
hospital	Hospital Data
labor	Labor force population
MDarea.popA	Maryland area population
mibrfss	Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey
nAuditAttr	Sample sizes for an attribute sample in an audit
nAuditMUS	Sample sizes for a Monetary Unit Sample in an audit
nCont	Compute a simple random sample size for an estimated mean
nContMoe	Compute a simple random sample size for an estimated mean of a continuous variable based on margin of error
nContOpt	Compute the sample size required to estimate the mean of a continuous variable by optimizing the numbers of take-alls and non-take-all units selected by probability sampling
nDep2sam	Simple random sample size for difference in means
nDomain	Compute a simple random sample size for an estimated mean or total for a domain
nhis	National Health Interview Survey: Demographic variables
nhis.large	National Health Interview Survey: Demographic and health variables
nhispart	National Health Interview Survey data from 2003: socioeconomic variables
nLogOdds	Calculate simple random sample size for estimating a proportion
nPPS	Calculate the sample size for a probability proportional to size (PPS) sample
nProp	Compute simple random sample size for estimating a proportion
nProp2sam	Simple random sample size for difference in proportions
nPropMoe	Simple random sample size for a proportion based on margin of error
NRadjClass	Class-based nonresponse adjustments
NRFUopt	Sample sizes for a nonresponse follow-up study
nWilson	Calculate a simple random sample size for estimating a proportion
pclass	Form nonresponse adjustment classes based on propensity scores
smho.N874	Survey of Mental Health Organizations Data
smho98	Survey of Mental Health Organizations Data
strAlloc	Allocate a sample to strata
Test_Data_US	Accounting data for some US cities with latitude and longitude of the city centroids
ThirdGrade	Third grade population
TPV	TPV Data
unitVar	Compute the unit (population) variance for a variable
wtdvar	Compute weighted variance