# --------------------------------------------
# CITATION file created with {cffr} R package
# See also: https://docs.ropensci.org/cffr/
# --------------------------------------------
 
cff-version: 1.2.0
message: 'To cite package "stratifyR" in publications use:'
type: software
license: GPL-2.0-only
title: 'stratifyR: Optimal Stratification of Univariate Populations'
version: 1.0-3
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.stratifyR
abstract: The stratification of univariate populations under stratified sampling designs
  is implemented according to Khan et al. (2002) <https://doi.org/10.1177/0008068320020518>
  and Khan et al. (2015) <https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2015.1018674> in this library.
  It determines the Optimum Strata Boundaries (OSB) and Optimum Sample Sizes (OSS)
  for the study variable, y, using the best-fit frequency distribution of a survey
  variable (if data is available) or a hypothetical distribution (if data is not available).
  The method formulates the problem of determining the OSB as mathematical programming
  problem which is solved by using a dynamic programming technique. If a dataset of
  the population is available to the surveyor, the method estimates its best-fit distribution
  and determines the OSB and OSS under Neyman allocation directly. When the dataset
  is not available, stratification is made based on the assumption that the values
  of the study variable, y, are available as hypothetical realizations of proxy values
  of y from recent surveys. Thus, it requires certain distributional assumptions about
  the study variable. At present, it handles stratification for the populations where
  the study variable follows a continuous distribution, namely, Pareto, Triangular,
  Right-triangular, Weibull, Gamma, Exponential, Uniform, Normal, Log-normal and Cauchy
  distributions.
authors:
- family-names: Reddy
  given-names: Karuna G.
  email: karuna.reddy@usp.ac.fj
- family-names: Khan
  given-names: M. G. M.
  email: khan_mg@usp.ac.fj
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=stratifyR
date-released: '2021-11-28'
contact:
- family-names: Reddy
  given-names: Karuna G.
  email: karuna.reddy@usp.ac.fj