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survey (version 3.23-2)

bootweights: Compute survey bootstrap weights

Description

Bootstrap weights for infinite populations are created by sampling with replacement from the PSUs in each stratum. subbootweights() samples n-1 PSUs from the n available (Rao and Wu), bootweights samples n (Canty and Davison).

bootweights() is most useful when the strata are large and may have large sampling fractions, subbootweights() is useful when the strata have a small number of PSUs and the sampling fractions are small.

This bootstrap is strictly appropriate only when the first stage of sampling is a simple or stratified random sample of PSUs with or without replacement, and not (eg) for PPS sampling.

Usage

bootweights(strata, psu, replicates = 50, fpc = NULL,
         fpctype = c("population", "fraction", "correction"),
         compress = TRUE)
subbootweights(strata, psu, replicates = 50,
         compress = TRUE)

Arguments

strata
Identifier for sampling strata (top level)
psu
Identifier for primary sampling units
replicates
Number of bootstrap replicates
fpc
Finite population correction
fpctype
Is fpc the population size, sampling fraction, or 1-sampling fraction?
compress
Should the replicate weights be compressed?

Value

  • A set of replicate weights

References

Canty AJ, Davison AC. (1999) Resampling-based variance estimation for labour force surveys. The Statistician 48:379-391

Rao JNK, Wu CFJ. Bootstrap inference for sample surveys. Proc Section on Survey Research Methodology. 1993 (866--871)

See Also

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