Package: MultiWay.Sample.Allocation
Type: Package
Title: Sample Allocation for multi-way stratified sampling designs and
        incomplete stratified sampling designs
Version: 1.0.1
Date: 2026-02-20
Author: Paolo Righi
Maintainer: Paolo Righi <parighi@istat.it>
Depends: MASS
Description: The package implements the sample allocation for one stage
    multi-way stratified (simple or with varying inclusion probabilities)
    and for incomplete stratified sampling designs. The allocation allows
    to control the expected sampling errors of the estimates of many
    parameters and several reference domains or subpopulations. The
    multi-way stratification is achieved by combining the variables
    defining the marginal cells of a multi-way contingency table. In the
    context of the finite population sampling theory the marginal cells
    are identified by the categories of the variables defining the
    interest domain partitions being independent of each other. For
    example the stratification obtained by combining the categories of two
    partitions into domains of interest defines a two-way stratification.
    A partition is denoted as independent or marginal when the domains
    cannot be obtained as aggregation of other domains defined in other
    partitions. The allocation of the sample in the non-independent
    domains is done by aggregating the sample size of the marginal
    domains. The package defines the allocation of the sample in
    accordance with the precision constraints of the estimates. In case of
    multi-way stratified designs, the sample size is fixed for each
    stratum. In case of incomplete stratified sampling design the sample
    size is fixed for each domain of interest.
License: EUPL
Imports: stats
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