Package: SamplingStrata
Type: Package
Title: Optimal Stratification of Sampling Frames for Multipurpose
        Sampling Surveys
Version: 1.5-2
Date: 2022-01-06
Author: Giulio Barcaroli, Marco Ballin, Hanjo Odendaal, Daniela Pagliuca, Egon Willighagen,
		Diego Zardetto
Maintainer: Giulio Barcaroli <gbarcaroli@gmail.com>
Description: In the field of stratified sampling design, this package offers an approach for the determination of the best stratification of a sampling frame, the one that ensures the minimum sample cost under the condition to satisfy precision constraints in a multivariate and multidomain case. This approach is based on the use of the genetic algorithm: each solution (i.e. a particular partition in strata of the sampling frame) is considered as an individual in a population; the fitness of all individuals is evaluated applying the Bethel-Chromy algorithm to calculate the sampling size satisfying precision constraints on the target estimates. Functions in the package allows to: (a) analyse the obtained results of the optimisation step; (b) assign the new strata labels to the sampling frame; (c) select a sample from the new frame accordingly to the best allocation. Functions for the execution of the genetic algorithm are a modified version of the functions in the 'genalg' package. M.Ballin, G.Barcaroli (2020) <arXiv:2004.09366> "R package SamplingStrata: new developments and extension to Spatial Sampling".  
License: GPL (>= 2)
LazyLoad: yes
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0), memoise, doParallel, pbapply, SamplingBigData,
        glue
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2022-01-06 16:51:18 UTC; Giulio
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, formattable
VignetteBuilder: knitr
URL: https://barcaroli.github.io/SamplingStrata/,
        https://github.com/barcaroli/SamplingStrata/
BugReports: https://github.com/barcaroli/SamplingStrata/issues
RoxygenNote: 6.1.1
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2022-01-07 14:02:50 UTC
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