PracTools: Designing and Weighting Survey Samples

Functions and datasets to support Valliant, Dever, and Kreuter (2018), <doi:10.1007/978-3-319-93632-1>, "Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples". Contains functions for sample size calculation for survey samples using stratified or clustered one-, two-, and three-stage sample designs, and single-stage audit sample designs. Functions are included that will group geographic units accounting for distances apart and measures of size. Other functions compute variance components for multistage designs, sample sizes in two-phase designs, and a stopping rule for ending data collection. A number of example data sets are included.

Version:	1.7.5
Depends:	R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports:	dplyr, geosphere, ggplot2, graphics, MASS, usmap
Suggests:	doBy, foreign, kableExtra, knitr, lpSolve, markdown, plyr, pps, Rcpp, reshape, rmarkdown, roxygen2, sampling, samplingbook, sp, survey
Published:	2026-01-17
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.PracTools
Author:	Richard Valliant [aut, cre], Jill A. Dever [ctb], Frauke Kreuter [ctb], George Zipf [aut]
Maintainer:	Richard Valliant <valliant at umich.edu>
License:	GPL-3
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	NEWS
In views:	OfficialStatistics
CRAN checks:	PracTools results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

PracTools.html , PracTools.pdf

Vignettes:

Design Effects and Effective Sample Size (source, R code) Creating Geography-Based PSUs with as Similarly-Sized MOS as Possible (source, R code) Deciding When to Stop: The SampStop function (source, R code) Selection of Appropriate PracTools Sample Size Function (source, R code) Sample Size Calculation in Single-stage Sampling (source, R code) Variance Component Estimation in Multistage Sampling (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	PracTools_1.7.5.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: PracTools_1.7.5.zip, r-release: PracTools_1.7.5.zip, r-oldrel: PracTools_1.7.5.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): PracTools_1.7.5.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): PracTools_1.7.5.tgz, r-release (x86_64): PracTools_1.7.5.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): PracTools_1.7.5.tgz
Old sources:	PracTools archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests:

mcboost

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