UPrandompivotal: Random pivotal sampling

Description

Selects a sample using the pivotal method, when the order of the population units is random (unequal probabilities, without replacement, fixed sample size).

Usage

UPrandompivotal(pik,eps=1e-6)

Arguments

pik

vector of prescribed inclusion probabilities.

eps

the control value, by default equal to 1e-6.

encoding

latin1

Details

Returns a vector (with elements 0 and 1) of size N, the population size. Each element k of this vector indicates the status of unit k (1, unit k is selected in the sample; 0, otherwise). The value 'eps' is used to control pik (pik>eps and pik

References

Deville, J.-C. and Till�, Y. (1998), Unequal probability sampling without replacement through a splitting method, Biometrika, 85:89--101. Till�, Y. (2006), Sampling Algorithms, Springer.

Examples

Run this code

#define the prescribed inclusion probabilities
pik=c(0.2,0.7,0.8,0.5,0.4,0.4)
#select a sample
s=UPrandompivotal(pik)
#the sample is
(1:length(pik))[s==1]

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