popsamp function

Sampling From a Population

Instructional function, and possibly a utility function for some apps.

popsamp(n,pop,...)

Arguments

• n: number of items to sample
• pop: data frame, from which to sample n rows
• ``: other arguments passed to function

Returns

The sample, as a data frame.

Examples

data(imagpop)
popsamp(10,imagpop)  #Simple random sampling (no replacement)
popsamp(10,imagpop,replace=TRUE)  #Random sampling with replacement

Author(s)

Homer White hwhite0@georgetowncollege.edu