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name: OfficialStatistics
topic: Official Statistics & Survey Statistics
maintainer: Matthias Templ, Alexander Kowarik, Tobias Schoch
email: matthias.templ@gmail.com
version: 2024-04-09
source: https://github.com/cran-task-views/OfficialStatistics/
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This CRAN Task View contains a list of packages with methods typically used
in official statistics and survey statistics. Many packages provide
functions for more than one of the topics listed below. Therefore, this
list is not a strict categorization and packages may be listed more than once.
The task view is split into several parts
- First part: ["Producing Official Statistics"](#prod). This first part
is targeted at people working at national statistical institutes,
national banks, international organizations, etc. who are involved in
the production of official statistics and using methods from survey statistics. It is loosely aligned to
the ["Generic Statistical Business Process Model"](https://statswiki.unece.org/display/GSBPM).
- Second part: ["Access to Official Statistics"](#access). This second
part's target audience is everyone interested to use official statistics
results directly from within R.
- Third part: ["Related Methods"](#specific) shows packages that are important in official and survey statistics, but do not directly fit into the production of official statistics. It complements with a subsection on ["Miscellaneous"]("Miscellaneous") - a collection of packages that are loosely linked to official statistics or that provide limited complements to official statistics and survey methods.
# First Part: Production of Official Statistics
## 1 Preparations/ Management/ Planning (questionnaire design, etc.)
- `r pkg("questionr")` package contains a set of
functions to make the processing and analysis of surveys easier. It
provides interactive shiny apps and addins for data recoding,
contingency tables, dataset metadata handling, and several
convenience functions.
- `r pkg("surveydata")` makes it easy to keep
track of metadata from surveys, and to easily extract columns with
specific questions.
- `r pkg("blaise")` implements functions for reading and writing files
in the Blaise Format (Statistics Netherlands).
## 2 Sampling
- `r pkg("sampling", priority = "core")` includes many different
algorithms (Brewer, Midzuno, pps, systematic, Sampford, balanced
(cluster or stratified) sampling via the cube method, etc.) for
drawing survey samples and calibrating the design weights.
- `r pkg("pps")` contains functions to select
samples using pps sampling. Also stratified simple random sampling
is possible as well as to compute joint inclusion probabilities for
Sampford's method of pps sampling.
- `r pkg("BalancedSampling")` provides functions to select balanced
and spatially balanced probability samples in multi-dimensional
spaces with any prescribed inclusion probabilities. It also includes
the local pivot method, the cube and local cube method and a few
more methods.
- `r pkg("PracTools")` contains functions for
sample size calculation for survey samples using stratified or
clustered one-, two-, and three-stage sample designs as well as
functions to compute variance components for multistage designs and
sample sizes in two-phase designs.
- `r pkg("surveyplanning")` includes tools for
sample survey planning, including sample size calculation,
estimation of expected precision for the estimates of totals, and
calculation of optimal sample size allocation.
- `r pkg("stratification")` allows univariate
stratification of survey populations with a generalisation of the
Lavallee-Hidiroglou method.
- `r pkg("SamplingStrata", priority = "core")` offers an approach for
choosing the best stratification of a sampling frame in a
multivariate and multidomain setting, where the sampling sizes in
each strata are determined in order to satisfy accuracy constraints
on target estimates. To evaluate the distribution of target
variables in different strata, information of the sampling frame, or
data from previous rounds of the same survey, may be used.
- `r pkg("R2BEAT")` provides functions for multivariate, domain-specific optimal
sample size allocation for one- and two-stage stratified sampling
designs (i.e., generalization of the allocation methods of Neyman
and Tschuprow to the case of several variables).
- `r pkg("sps")` implements the sequential Poisson method for drawing
probability-proportional-to-size samples. Includes tools to coordinate
samples with permanent random numbers, draw stratified samples, and use
other order-sampling methods.
## 3 Data Collection (incl. record linkage)
### 3.1 Data Integration (Statistical Matching and Record Linkage)
- `r pkg("StatMatch")` provides functions to
perform statistical matching between two data sources sharing a
number of common variables. It creates a synthetic data set after
matching of two data sources via a likelihood approach or via
hot-deck.
- `r pkg("MatchIt")` allows nearest neighbor
matching, exact matching, optimal matching and full matching amongst
other matching methods. If two data sets have to be matched, the
data must come as one data frame including a factor variable which
includes information about the membership of each observation.
- `r pkg("MatchThem")` provides tools of matching
and weighting multiply imputed datasets to control for effects of
confounders. Multiple imputed data files from mice and amelia can be
used directly.
- `r pkg("stringdist")` can calculate various
string distances based on edits (damerau-levenshtein, hamming,
levenshtein, optimal sting alignment), qgrams (q-gram, cosine,
jaccard distance) or heuristic metrics (jaro, jaro-winkler).
- `r pkg("XBRL")` allows the extraction of
business financial information from XBRL Documents.
- `r pkg("RecordLinkage")` implements the Fellegi-Sunter method for record
linkage.
- `r pkg("fastLink")` implements a Fellegi-Sunter probabilistic record
linkage model that allows for missing data and the inclusion of
auxiliary information. Documentation can be found
on http://imai.princeton.edu/research/linkage.html
- `r pkg("fuzzyjoin")` provides function for joining tables based on exact
or similar matches. It allows for matching records based on inaccurate keys.
- `r pkg("PPRL")` implements privacy preserving record linkage, especially useful
when personal ID's cannot be used to link two data sets. This approach then
protects the identity of persons.
- `r pkg("reclin2")` provides functions to assist in performing
probabilistic record linkage and deduplication.
- `r pkg("klsh")` provides blocking (for record linkage) of records using a k-means variant of locality sensitive hashing.
- `r pkg("representr")` provides tools to create representative records after entity resolution/record linkage is performed.
- `r pkg("clevr")` provides tools for evaluating link prediction and clustering algorithms with respect to ground truth.
### 3.2 Web Scraping
Web scraping is used nowadays used more frequently in the production
of official statistics. For example in price statistics, the collection
of product prices, formerly collected by hand over the web or by in person
visits to stores are replaced by scraping specific homepages. Tools
for this process step are not listed here, but a detailed overview can
be found on the CRAN task view on `r view("WebTechnologies")`.
## 4 Data Processing
### 4.1 Weighting and Calibration
- `r pkg("survey", priority = "core")` allows for
post-stratification, generalized raking/calibration, GREG estimation
and trimming of weights.
- `r pkg("svrep")` provides calibration tools with its function `calibrate_to_estimate` (method of Fuller 1998, raking, post-stratification) that extends package `r pkg("survey")`.
- `r pkg("sampling")` provides the function `calib()` to calibrate for
nonresponse (with response homogeneity
groups) for stratified samples.
- `r pkg("laeken")` provides the function `calibWeights()` for calibration,
which is possibly faster (depending on the
example) than `calib()` from `r pkg("sampling")`.
- `r pkg("icarus")` focuses on calibration and
re-weighting in survey sampling and was designed to provide a
familiar setting in R for users of the SAS macro `Calmar` developed by INSEE.
- `r pkg("CalibrateSSB")` include a function
to calculate weights and estimates for panel data with non-response.
- `r pkg("Frames2")` allows point and interval
estimation in dual frame surveys. When two probability samples (one
from each frame) are drawn. Information collected is suitably
combined to get estimators of the parameter of interest.
- `r pkg("surveysd", priority = "core")` provides calibration by iterative proportinal fitting,
a calibrated bootstrap optimized for complex surveys and error
estimation based on it.
- `r pkg("inca")` performs calibration weighting with integer weights.
- `r pkg("jointCalib")` performs a joint calibration of totals and quantiles.
### 4.2 Editing (including outlier detection)
- `r pkg("validate", priority = "core")` includes rule management and
data validation and package `r pkg("validatetools", priority = "core")` is
checking and simplifying sets of validation rules.
- `r pkg("errorlocate", priority = "core")` includes error
localisation based on the principle of Fellegi and Holt. It supports
categorical and/or numeric data and linear equalities, inequalities
and conditional rules. The package includes a configurable backend
for MIP-based error localization.
- `r pkg("editrules")` convert readable linear
(in)equalities into matrix form.
- `r pkg("deducorrect")` depends on package
`r pkg("editrules")` and applies deductive correction of
simple rounding, typing and sign errors based on balanced edits.
Values are changed so that the given balanced edits are fulfilled.
To determine which values are changed the Levenstein-metric is
applied.
- `r pkg("deductive")` allows for data correction and imputation using deductive methods.
- `r pkg("rspa")` implements functions to
minimally adjust numerical records so they obey (in)equation
restrictions.
- `r pkg("univOutl")` includes various methods
for detecting univariate outliers, e.g. the Hidiroglou-Berthelot
method.
- `r pkg("extremevalues")` is designed to detect
univariate outliers based on modeling the bulk distribution.
### 4.3 Imputation
A general overview of imputation methods can be found in the CRAN Task View on Missing Data, `r view("MissingData")`. However, most of these presented methods do not take into account the specificities of survey's from complex designs, i.e., methods that are not specifically designed for official statistics and surveys.
For example, the criteria for applying a method often depend on the scale of the data, which in official statistics are usually a mixture of continuous, semi-continuous, binary, categorical, and count variables. In addition, measurement error can greatly affect non-robust imputation methods.
Commonly used packages within statistical agencies are `r pkg("VIM", priority = "core")` and `r pkg("simputation")` having fast k-nearest neighbor (knn) algorithms for general distances and (robust) EM-based multiple imputation algorithms implemented.
### 4.4 Seasonal Adjustment
Seasonal adjustment is an important step in producing official statistics
and a very limited set of methodologies are used here frequently,
e.g. X13-ARIMA-SEATS developed by the US Census Bureau. In the CRAN
Task View `r view("TimeSeries")` section seasonal adjustment,
R packages for this can be found.
## 5 Analysis of Survey Data
### 5.1 Estimation and Variance Estimation
- `r pkg("survey", priority = "core")` works with
survey samples. It allows to specify a complex survey design
(stratified sampling design, cluster sampling, multi-stage sampling
and pps sampling with or without replacement). Once the given survey
design is specified within the function `svydesign()`, point and
variance estimates can be computed. The resulting object can be used
to estimate (Horvitz-Thompson-) totals, means, ratios and quantiles
for domains or the whole survey sample, and to apply regression
models. Variance estimation for means, totals and ratios can be done
either by Taylor linearization or resampling (BRR, jackkife,
bootstrap or user-defined).
- `r pkg("robsurvey")` provides functions for the computation of robust
(outlier-resistant) estimators of finite population characteristics
(means, totals, ratios, regression, etc.) using weight reduction,
trimming, winsorization and M-estimation. The package
complements `r pkg("survey")`.
- `r pkg("surveysd", priority = "core")` offers calibration, bootstrap and error
estimation for complex surveys (incl. designs with rotational designs).
- `r pkg("gustave")` provides a toolkit for analytical variance
estimation in survey sampling.
- `r pkg("vardpoor")` allows to calculate
linearisation of several nonlinear population statistics, variance
estimation of sample surveys by the ultimate cluster method,
variance estimation for longitudinal and cross-sectional measures,
and measures of change for any stage cluster sampling designs.
- `r pkg("rpms")` fits a linear model to
survey data in each node obtained by recursively partitioning the
data. The algorithm accounts for one-stage of stratification and
clustering as well as unequal probability of selection.
- `r pkg("collapse")` implements advanced and
computationally fast methods for grouped and weighted statistics and
multi-type data aggregation (e.g. mean, variance, statistical mode
etc.), fast (grouped, weighted) transformations of time series and
panel data (e.g. scaling, centering, differences, growth rates), and
fast (grouped, weighted, panel-decomposed) summary statistics for
complex multilevel / panel data.
- `r pkg("srvyr")` is inspired by the synthetic style of the
`dplyr` package (i.e., piping, verbs like `group_by` and
`summarize`). It offers summary statistics for design objects of the
`r pkg("survey")` package.
- `r pkg("weights")` provides a variety of functions for
producing simple weighted statistics, such as weighted
Pearson's correlations, partial correlations, Chi-Squared
statistics, histograms and t-tests.
- `r pkg("svrep")` provides tools for creating, updating and
analyzing survey replicate weights as an extension of `r pkg("survey")`.
Non-response adjustments to both full-sample and replicate
weights can be applied. Bootstrap replicate weights can be
created for a variety of sampling designs, including stratified multistage samples
and samples selected using systematic or unequal probability sampling.
- `r pkg("NonProbEst")` includes different inference procedures to correct for selection
bias that might be introduced with non-random selection mechanisms.
- `r pkg("nonprobsvy")` includes statistical inference methods with non-probability samples when auxiliary information is available from external sources such as probability samples or population totals or means.
### 5.2 Visualization
- `r pkg("VIM", priority = "core")` is designed to visualize missing values using suitable
plot methods. It can be used to analyse the structure of missing values
in microdata using univariate, bivariate, multiple and multivariate
plots where the information of missing values from specified variables
are highlighted in selected variables. It also comes with a
graphical user interface.
- `r pkg("treemap")` provide treemaps. A treemap is a space-filling
visualization of aggregates of data with hierarchical structures.
Colors can be used to relate to highlight differences between
comparable aggregates.
- `r pkg("tmap")` offers a layer-based way to make thematic maps,
like choropleths and bubble maps.
- `r pkg("rworldmap")` outline how to map country referenced data and
support users in visualizing their own data. Examples are given,
e.g., maps for the world bank and UN. It provides also new ways
to visualize maps.
## 6 Statistical Disclosure Control
Data from statistical agencies and other institutions are in its raw
form mostly confidential and data providers have to be ensure
confidentiality by both modifying the original data so that no
statistical units can be re-identified and by guaranteeing a minimum
amount of information loss.
### Unit-level data (microdata)
- `r pkg("sdcMicro", priority = "core")` can be used to anonymize data, i.e. to create
anonymized files for public and scientific use. It implements a
wide range of methods for anonymizing categorical and continuous
(key) variables. The package also contains a graphical user
interface, which is available by calling the function `sdcGUI`.
- `r pkg("simPop", priority = "core")` using linear and robust regression methods,
random forests (and many more methods) to simulate synthetic data
from given complex data. It is also suitable to produce synthetic
data when the data have hierarchical and cluster information
(such as persons in households) as well as when the data had been
collected with a complex sampling design. It makes use of
parallel computing internally.
- `r pkg("synthpop")` using regression tree methods to simulate
synthetic data from given data. It is suitable to produce synthetic
data when the data have no hierarchical and cluster information
(such as households) as well as when the data does not collected
with a complex sampling design.
### Aggregated information (tabular data)
- `r pkg("sdcTable", priority = "core")` can be used to provide
confidential (hierarchical) tabular data. It includes the HITAS and
the HYPERCUBE technique and uses linear programming packages (Rglpk
and lpSolveAPI) for solving (a large amount of) linear programs.
- `r pkg("sdcSpatial")` can be used to smooth
or/and suppress raster cells in a map. This is useful when plotting
raster-based counts on a map.
- `r pkg("sdcHierarchies")` provides methods to
generate, modify, import and convert nested hierarchies that are
often used when defining inputs for statistical disclosure control
methods.
- `r pkg("SmallCountRounding")` can be used to
protect frequency tables by rounding necessary inner cells so that
cross-classifications to be published are safe.
- `r pkg("GaussSuppression")` can be used to
protect tables by suppression using the Gaussian elimination
secondary suppression algorithm.
### Remote access
- `r pkg("DSI")` is an interface to DataShield. DataShield is an
infrastructure and series of R packages that enables the remote
and non-disclosive analysis of sensitive research data.
# Second Part: Access to Official Statistics
## Access to data from international organizations and multiple organizations
- `r pkg("OECD")` searches and extracts data from
the OECD.
- `r pkg("Rilostat")` contains tools to download
data from the [international labour organisation
database](http://www.ilo.org/ilostat) together with search and
manipulation utilities. It can also import ilostat data that are
available on their data base in SDMX format.
- `r pkg("eurostat")` provides search for and
access to data from Eurostat, the statistical agency for the
European Union.
- `r pkg("ipumsr")` provides an easy way to import
census, survey and geographic data provided by IPUMS.
- `r pkg("FAOSTAT")` can be used to download data from the
FAOSTAT database of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of
the United Nations.
- `r pkg("pxweb")` provides generic interface for
the PX-Web/PC-Axis API used by many National Statistical Agencies.
- `r pkg("PxWebApiData")` provides easy API access
to e.g. Statistics Norway, Statistics Sweden and Statistics Finland.
- `r pkg("rdhs")` interacts with The Demographic
and Health Surveys (DHS) Program datasets.
- `r pkg("prevR")` implements functions (see
`import.dhs()`) to import data from the
Demographic Health Survey.
- `r pkg("rsdmx")` provides easy access to data from statistical organisations
that support SDMX web services. The package contains a list of SDMX
access points of various national and international statistical institutes.
- `r pkg("readsdmx")` implements functions to read SDMX into data frames
from local SDMX-ML file or web-service. By OECD.
- `r pkg("regions")` offers tools to process regional statistics focusing on European data.
- `r pkg("statcodelists")` makes the internationally standardized SDMX code lists available for the R user.
- `r pkg("rdbnomics")` provides access to the DB.nomics database on
macroeconomic data from 38 official providers such as INSEE, Eurostat,
Wolrd bank, etc.
- `r pkg("iotables")` makes input-output tables tidy, and allows for economic and environmental impact analysis with formatting the data received from the Eurostat data warehouse into appropriate, validated, matrix forms.
- `r pkg("npi")` provides access to the API for the U.S. National Provider Identifier Registry, which is the authoritative data source for National Provider Identifier records in the healthcare domain.
- `r pkg("WDI")` provides access to the API for the World Development Indicators gathered by the World Bank.
- `r pkg("refugees")` contains data from the [Refugee Population Statistics Database](https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/) published by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
## Access to data from national organizations
- `r pkg("tidyqwi")` provides an api for accessing
the United States Census Bureau's Quarterly Workforce Indicator.
- `r pkg("tidyBdE")` provides access to official
statistics provided by the Spanish Banking Authority Banco de Espana.
- `r pkg("cancensus")` provides access to Statistics
Canada's Census data with the option to retrieve all data as
spatial data.
- `r pkg("sorvi")` provides access to Finnish open government data.
- `r pkg("insee")` searches and extracts data from
the Insee's BDM database.
- `r pkg("acs")` downloads, manipulates, and
presents the American Community Survey and decennial data from the
US Census.
- `r pkg("censusapi")` implements a wrapper for the U.S. Census Bureau APIs
that returns data frames of Census data and meta data.
- `r pkg("idbr")` implements functions to make requests to
the US Census Bureau's International Data Base API.
- `r pkg("tidycensus")` provides an integrated R
interface to the decennial US Census and American Community Survey
APIs and the US Census Bureau's geographic boundary files
- `r pkg("inegiR")` provides access to data published by INEGI, Mexico's
official statistics agency.
- `r pkg("cbsodataR")` provides access to
Statistics Netherlands' (CBS) open data API.
- `r pkg("EdSurvey")` includes analysis of NCES
Education Survey and Assessment Data.
- `r pkg("nomisr")` gives access to Nomis UK
Labour Market Data including Census and Labour Force Survey.
- `r pkg("readabs")` implements functions to download and tidy time
series data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
- `r pkg("BIFIEsurvey")` includes tools for survey
statistics in educational assessment including data with replication
weights (e.g. from bootstrap).
- `r pkg("CANSIM2R")` provides functions to extract CANSIM (Statistics Canada)
tables and transform them into readily usable data.
- `r pkg("statcanR")` provides an R connection to Statistics Canada's Web
Data Service. Open economic data (formerly CANSIM tables) are
accessible as a data frame in the R environment.
- `r pkg("cdlTools")` provides functions to download USDA National
Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) cropscape data for a specified state.
- `r pkg("csodata")` provides functions to download data from Central
Statistics Office (CSO) of Ireland.
# Third Part: Related Methods
## Small Area Estimation
- `r pkg("sae", priority = "core")` provides functions for small area
estimation (basic area- and unit-level model, Fay-Herriot model with
spatial/ temporal correlations), for example, direct estimators,
the empirical best predictor and composite estimators.
- `r pkg("rsae")` provides functions to estimate
the parameters of the basic unit-level small area estimation (SAE)
model (aka nested error regression model) by means of maximum
likelihood (ML) or robust M-estimation. On the basis of the estimated
parameters, robust predictions of the area-specific means are
computed (incl. MSE estimates; parametric bootstrap).
- `r pkg("emdi")` provides functions that support
estimating, assessing and mapping regional disaggregated indicators.
So far, estimation methods comprise direct estimation, the
model-based unit-level approach Empirical Best Prediction, the
area-level model and various extensions of it, as well as their
precision estimates. The assessment of the used model is supported
by a summary and diagnostic plots. For a suitable presentation of
estimates, map plots can be easily created and exported.
- `r pkg("hbsae")` provides functions to
compute small area estimates based on a basic area or unit-level
model. The model is fit using restricted maximum likelihood, or in a
hierarchical Bayesian way. Auxiliary information can be either counts
resulting from categorical variables or means from continuous
population information.
- `r pkg("SAEval")` provides diagnostics and graphic tools for the
evaluation of small area estimators
- `r pkg("mind")` provides multivariate prediction and inference
(mean square error) for domains using mixed linear models as proposed
in Datta, Day, and Basawa (1999, J. Stat. Plan. Inference)
- `r pkg("JoSAE")` provides point and variance
estimation for the generalized regression (GREG) and a unit level
empirical best linear unbiased prediction EBLUP estimators can be
made at domain level. It basically provides wrapper functions to the
`r pkg("nlme")` package that is used to fit the basic
random effects models.
- `r pkg("SUMMER")` SUMMER: provides small area estimation unit and area models and methods for spatial and spatio-temporal smoothing of demographic and health indicators using survey data
## Microsimulation
- `r pkg("simPop", priority = "core")` allows to produce synthetic population data, sometimes
needed as a starting population for microsimulations.
- `r pkg("sms")` provides facilities to simulate
micro-data from given area-based macro-data. Simulated annealing is
used to best satisfy the available description of an area. For
computational issues, the calculations can be run in parallel mode.
- `r pkg("saeSim")` implements tools for the simulation of
data in the context of small area estimation.
- `r pkg("SimSurvey")` simulates age-structured
spatio-temporal populations given built-in or user-defined sampling
protocols.
## Indices, Indicators, Tables and Visualization of Indicators
- `r pkg("laeken")` provides functions to estimate
popular risk-of-poverty and inequality indicators
(at-risk-of-poverty rate, quintile share ratio, relative median
risk-of-poverty gap, Gini coefficient). In addition, standard and
robust methods for tail modeling of Pareto distributions are
provided for semi-parametric estimation of indicators from
continuous univariate distributions such as income variables.
- `r pkg("convey")` estimates variances on
indicators of income concentration and poverty using familiar
linearized and replication-based designs created by the
`r pkg("survey")` package such as the Gini coefficient,
Atkinson index, at-risk-of-poverty threshold, and more than a dozen
others.
- `r pkg("ineq")` computes various inequality
measures (Gini, Theil, entropy, among others), concentration
measures (Herfindahl, Rosenbluth), and poverty measures (Watts, Sen,
SST, and Foster). It also computes and draws empirical and
theoretical Lorenz curves as well as Pen's parade. It is not
designed to deal with sampling weights directly (these could only be
emulated via `rep(x, weights)`).
- `r pkg("wINEQ")` fills the gap of `r pkg("ineq")` and allows for sampling weights directly.
It contains various inequality measures such as Gini, Theil, Leti index, Palma ratio, 20:20 ratio, Allison and Foster index, Jenkins index, Cowell and Flechaire index, Abul Naga and Yalcin index, Apouey index, Blair and Lacy index.
- `r pkg("DHS.rates")` estimates key indicators
(especially fertility rates) and their variances for the Demographic
and Health Survey (DHS) data.
- `r pkg("micEconIndex")` implements functions to compute prices indices
(of type Paasche, Fisher and Laspeyres); see `priceIndex()`. For
estimating quantities (of goods, for example) see function
`quantityIndex()`.
- `r pkg("piar")` provides tools to make price indexes that aggregate a
collection of elemental indexes according to a hierarchical structure.
Includes methods to flexibly build indexes from multiple sources of data,
chain indexes over time, and construct product contributions.
# Miscellaneous
- `r pkg("samplingbook")` includes sampling
procedures from the book 'Stichproben. Methoden und praktische
Umsetzung mit R' by Goeran Kauermann and Helmut Kuechenhoff (2010).
- `r pkg("SDaA")` is designed to reproduce results
from Lohr, S. (1999) 'Sampling: Design and Analysis, Duxbury' and
includes the data sets from this book.
- `r pkg("samplingVarEst")` implements Jackknife methods for variance
estimation of unequal probability with one or two stage designs.
- `r pkg("memisc")` includes tools for the
management of survey data, graphics and simulation.
- `r pkg("anesrake")` provides a comprehensive
system for selecting variables and weighting data to match the
specifications of the American National Election Studies.
- `r pkg("spsurvey")` includes facilities for
spatial survey design and analysis for equal and unequal probability
(stratified) sampling.
- `r pkg("FFD")` provides function to calculate
optimal sample sizes of a population of animals living in herds for
surveys to substantiate freedom from disease. The criteria of
estimating the sample sizes take the herd-level clustering of
diseases as well as imperfect diagnostic tests into account and
select the samples based on a two-stage design. Inclusion
probabilities are not considered in the estimation. The package
provides a graphical user interface as well.
- `r pkg("mipfp")` provides multidimensional iterative
proportional fitting to calibrate n-dimensional arrays given target
marginal tables.
- `r pkg("MBHdesign")` provides spatially balanced
designs from a set of (contiguous) potential sampling locations in a
study region.
- `r pkg("quantification")` provides different
functions for quantifying qualitative survey data. It supports the
Carlson-Parkin method, the regression approach, the balance approach
and the conditional expectations method.
- `r pkg("surveybootstrap")` includes tools for using
different kinds of bootstrap for estimating sampling variation using
complex survey data.
- `r pkg("RRreg")` implements univariate and
multivariate analysis (correlation, linear, and logistic regression)
for several variants of the randomized response technique, a survey
method for eliminating response biases due to social desirability.
- `r pkg("RRTCS")` includes randomized response
techniques for complex surveys.
- `r pkg("panelaggregation")` aggregates business
tendency survey data (and other qualitative surveys) to time series
at various aggregation levels.
- `r pkg("rtrim")` implements functions to study trends and indices for
monitoring data. It provides tools for estimating animal/plant
populations based on site counts, including occurrence of missing data.
- `r pkg("rjstat")`. Read and write data sets in the JSON-stat format.
- `r pkg("diffpriv")` implements the perturbation of statistics with
differential privacy.
- `r pkg("easySdcTable")` provides a graphical interface to a small selection of functionality of package `r pkg("sdcTable")`.
- `r pkg("MicSim")` includes methods for
microsimulations. Given a initial population, mortality rates,
divorce rates, marriage rates, education changes, etc. and their
transition matrix can be defined and included for the simulation of
future states of the population. The package does not contain
compiled code but functionality to run the microsimulation in
parallel is provided.
- `r pkg("singleRcapture")` provides methods to estimate the population size of hard-to-reach populations using single-source capture-recapture methods.