UPrandompivotal {sampling}R Documentation

Random pivotal sampling

Description

Select an unequal probability sample by means of the pivotal method, when the order of the units in the population is random.

Usage

UPrandompivotal(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

Deville, J.-C. and Tillé, Y. (1998), Unequal probability sampling without replacement through a splitting method, Biometrika, 85:89–101.

See Also

UPpivotal

Examples

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

[Package sampling version 0.2 Index]