[r-cran-survey] 02/04: Add README.source describing binary data files as requested by ftpmaster

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Author: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
Date:   Thu Feb 2 13:43:18 2017 +0100

    Add README.source describing binary data files as requested by ftpmaster
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+Explanation for binary files inside source package according to
+  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/09/msg00332.html
+
+Files: data/api.rda
+Documented: man/api.Rd
+  Student performance in California schools
+  .
+  The Academic Performance Index is computed for all California schools
+  based on standardised testing of students. The data sets contain
+  information for all schools with at least 100 students and for various
+  probability samples of the data.
+  .
+  Data were obtained from the survey sampling help pages of UCLA
+  Academic Technology Services, at 
+  http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/Library/svy_survey.htm
+
+Files: data/crowd.rda
+Documented: man/crowd.Rd
+  A tiny dataset from the VPLX manual (frame with 6 observations)
+  Source: Manual for VPLX, Census Bureau.
+
+Files: data/election.rda
+Documented: man/election.Rd
+  US 2004 presidential election data at state or county level
+  .
+  A sample of voting data from US states or counties (depending on data
+  availability), sampled with probability proportional to number of votes.
+  The sample was drawn using Tille's splitting method, implemented in the
+  "sampling" package.
+
+Files: data/fpc.rda
+Documented: man/fpc.Rd
+  Small survey example
+  .
+  The fpc data frame has 8 rows and 6 columns. It is artificial
+  data to illustrate survey sampling estimators.
+  Source: http://www.stata-press.com/data/r7/fpc.dta
+
+Files: data/hospital.rda
+Documented: man/hospital.Rd
+  Sample of obstetric hospitals
+  Source: http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/books/sop/hospsamp.dta
+
+Files: data/mu284.rda
+Documented: man/mu284.Rd
+  Two-stage sample from MU284
+  .
+  The MU284 population comes from Sarndal et al, and the complete data are
+  available from Statlib. These data are a two-stage sample from the
+  population, analyzed on page 143 of the book.
+  .
+  Carl Erik Sarndal, Bengt Swensson, Jan Wretman. (1991) "Model Assisted
+  Survey Sampling" Springer.
+
+Files: data/nhanes.rda
+Documented: man/nhanes.Rd
+  Cholesterol data from a US survey
+  .
+  Data extracted from NHANES 2009-2010 on high cholesterol.
+  .
+  ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/nhanes/2009-2010
+
+Files: data/scd.rda
+Documented: man/scd.Rd
+  Survival in cardiac arrest
+  .
+  These data are from Section 12.2 of Levy and Lemeshow.  They describe
+  (a possibly apocryphal) study of survival in out-of-hospital cardiac
+  arrest. Two out of five ambulance stations were sampled from each of
+  three emergency service areas.
+  .
+  Levy and Lemeshow. "Sampling of Populations" (3rd edition). Wiley.
+
+Files: data/yrbs.rda
+Documented: man/yrbs.Rd
+  One variable from the Youth Risk Behaviors Survey, 2015.
+  .
+  Design information from the Youth Risk Behaviors Survey (YRBS), together
+  with the single variable `Never/Rarely wore bike helmet'.  Used as an
+  analysis example by CDC.
+  .
+  ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/data/yrbs/2015smy/
+
+ -- Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>  Sun, 08 Jan 2017 17:03:04 +0100
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