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  <dc:title>PPS Sampling</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package pps version 1.0</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: OfficialStatistics (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=OfficialStatistics)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Functions to select samples using PPS (probability proportional to size) sampling. The package also includes a function for stratified simple random sampling, a function to compute joint inclusion probabilities for Sampford's method of PPS sampling, and a few utility functions. The user's guide pps-ug.pdf is included in the .../pps/doc directory. The methods are described in standard survey sampling theory books such as Cochran's "Sampling Techniques"; see the user's guide for references.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:creator>Jack G. Gambino &lt;jack.gambino@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Jack G. Gambino &lt;jack.gambino@gmail.com&gt;</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2021-01-17</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=pps</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.pps</dc:identifier>
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