sampling (version 0.1)

UPmultinomial: Multinomial sampling

Description

Use Hansen-Hurwitz method to select a sample of units (unequal probabilities, with replacement, fixed sample size).

Usage

UPmultinomial(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

Hansen, M. and Hurwitz, W. (1943), On the theory of sampling from finite populations. Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 14:333-362.

See Also

rmultinom

Examples

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