sampling (version 0.1)

UPrandomsystematic: Random systematic sampling

Description

Use systematic method to select a sample of units, when the order of units in population is random (unequal probabilities, without replacement, fixed sample size).

Usage

UPrandomsystematic(pik)

Arguments

pik

vector of prescribed inclusion probabilities.

Details

Return a vector (0 and 1) of size N, where N is the population size.

References

Madow, W.G. (1949), On the theory of systematic sampling, II, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 20, 333-354.

See Also

UPsystematic

Examples

#define the prescribed inclusion probabilities
pik=c(0.2,0.7,0.8,0.5,0.4,0.4)
#select a sample
UPrandomsystematic(pik)