Package: SamplingStrata
Type: Package
Title: Optimal Stratification of Sampling Frames for Multipurpose
        Sampling Surveys
Version: 1.6
Date: 2025-02-01
Author: Giulio Barcaroli, Marco Ballin, Hanjo Odendaal, Daniela
        Pagliuca, Egon Willighagen, Diego Zardetto
Authors@R: c(person("Giulio", "Barcaroli", role = c("aut", "cre"),
                     email = "gbarcaroli@gmail.com"),
              person("Marco", "Ballin", role = "aut",
                     email = "marco.ballin@istat.it"),
              person("Hanjo", "Odendaal", role = "aut",
                     email = "hanjo.oden@gmail.com"),
              person("Daniela", "Pagliuca", role = "aut"), 
              person("Egon", "Willighagen", role = "aut"),
              person("Diego", "Zardetto", role = "aut")
              )
Maintainer: Giulio Barcaroli <gbarcaroli@gmail.com>
Description: In the field of stratified sampling design, this package
        offers an approach for the determination of the best
        stratification of a sampling frame, the one that ensures the
        minimum sample cost under the condition to satisfy precision
        constraints in a multivariate and multidomain case. This
        approach is based on the use of the genetic algorithm: each
        solution (i.e. a particular partition in strata of the sampling
        frame) is considered as an individual in a population; the
        fitness of all individuals is evaluated applying the
        Bethel-Chromy algorithm to calculate the sampling size
        satisfying precision constraints on the target estimates.
        Functions in the package allows to: (a) analyse the obtained
        results of the optimisation step; (b) assign the new strata
        labels to the sampling frame; (c) select a sample from the new
        frame accordingly to the best allocation. Functions for the
        execution of the genetic algorithm are a modified version of
        the functions in the 'genalg' package.
License: GPL (>= 2)
LazyLoad: yes
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0), memoise, doParallel, pbapply, SamplingBigData,
        glue, methods
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-06-24 16:34:51 UTC; root
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, formattable
VignetteBuilder: knitr
URL: https://barcaroli.github.io/SamplingStrata/,
        https://github.com/barcaroli/SamplingStrata/
BugReports: https://github.com/barcaroli/SamplingStrata/issues
RoxygenNote: 6.1.1
LinkingTo: Rcpp
Imports: Rcpp
Repository: https://barcaroli.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-06-24 13:41:56 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/barcaroli/samplingstrata
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 800340cb7da6b7cc14b8d633c199dfa68cfc59ee