input data set with (d X t) rows and 4+k+sum(pp) columns. The first four columns of the data set are, in this order: the area indicator (integer), the time indicator (integer), the sample size of each domain and the population size of each domain. The following k columns are the categories of the response variable. Then, the auxiliary variables: first, the auxiliary variables of the first category, second, the auxiliary variables of the second category, and so on. Examples of input data set are in simdata
, simdata2
and simdata3
.