NEWS

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surveysd 2.0.0 (2025-08-26)

• Fixed issue if parameter period was type haven::labelled in calc.stError().

• Refactored code to make use of new data.table variable env. Makes code more readable and stable.

• calc.stError() has new parameter group.diff. If group.diff=TRUE differences between values defined in group will also be calculated. For instance

  library(surveysd)
  set.seed(1234)
  eusilc <- demo.eusilc(n = 4,prettyNames = TRUE)
  dat_boot <- draw.bootstrap(eusilc, REP = 3, hid = "hid", weights = "pWeight",
                             strata = "region", period = "year")
  dat_boot_calib <- recalib(dat_boot, conP.var = "gender", conH.var = "region")
  
  # estimate weightedRatio for povertyRisk per period
  err.est <- calc.stError(dat_boot_calib, var = "povertyRisk",
                          fun = weightedRatio, group = "gender",
                          group.diff = TRUE)
  

  will produce difference in poverty rate between male and female, in addition to other estimates.

• Updated vignette accordingly.

• Fixed bug with parameter adjust.var and fun.adjust.var in function calc.stError().

• Changed parameter national to relative.share in calc.stError() included a deprecate-message if national = TRUE is supplied.

• Fixed issue with parameter looseH in function ipf().

• Fixed bug that variables names created by internal functions where not properly cleaned up before returning data.table output.

• Improved summary.ipf() and included print.summary.ipf() in order to make the output of ipf() as well as convergence issues when using ipf() more intuitive.

• New parameter method in draw.bootstrap() and rescaled.bootstrap(). Can bei either "Preston" or "Rao-Wu", see ?draw.bootstrap() or the new vignette.

• draw.bootstrap() can now be used to draw bootstrap replicates if bootstrap replicates where drawn for previous year with parameter already.selected. already.selected expects a list of data.tables indicating if a record was already included in a bootstrap replicates in the previous period

• New function get.selection() to create input for parameter already.selected in draw.bootstrap().

• Updated and included (more) unit tests.

surveysd 1.3.2

• rescaled.bootstrap() has additional parameter period which is identical to the one in draw.bootstrap. If period is not NULL the boostraps will be drawn such that in each period and strata/cluster only $\floor{\frac{n}{2}}$ records are drawn. This produces more consisten results and should make calibration afterwards easier.
• Improved numerical weighting with computeLinearG1 for use with ipf(). computeLinearG1 is now more stable when only numerical variables are used for weighting.
• parameter numericalWeighting can be passed to recalib and will correctly be passed along to function ipf

surveysd 1.3

• new parameter minMaxTrim in ipf() to trim weights
• fix bug for numericalWeighting reported "converged" when it did not converge
• fix bug when checking cluster and strata for bootstrapping

surveysd 1.2

• Add vignette about ipf()
• Resolve bug that appeared if constraints contained only one household or only one person (#17)

surveysd 1.1.1

• recalib() accepts conP and conH in the same way as ipf
• recalib() has arguments epsP and epsH, to make convergence limits more transparant
• fixed bug in ipf() when supplying hid="hid", see https://github.com/statistikat/surveysd/pull/20. Thanks @asiripanich

surveysd 1.1.0 (2019-07-15)

• uncouple surveysd from simPop
  • use demo.eusilc() for all examples and unit tests in this package
  • remove simPop from the "Suggests" field (DESCRIPTION)
• remove hardcoded variable names in default parameters
• allow calls to recalib() without specifying conP.vars or conH.vars

surveysd 1.0.2

• fix bug with NSE
• update documentation for calc.stError

surveysd 1.0.1

• fix bug with fpc calculation (0824834)
• fix bug with dummy data (5adb6b7)
• improve readability of code and resolve linters
• resolve issues when datasets have columns with certain names (#7, #10)
• automatize the gh-pages builds
  • css updates
• automated linter-checking
• new badges (code coverage, cran)
• update setup for vignettes
• fix issue when household column is not a factor (#12)

surveysd 1.0.0 (2019-01-25)

• copy simPop::ipu2() and some related functions to surveysd.
  • add bugfixes for ported functions
• simplify tests
• update references for the methodology vignette
• fix sampling with full population in some strata

surveysd 0.2.3

• Fix citation
• Resolve issue that occured when columns had multiple classes

surveysd 0.2.2

• Update some default parameters (#4, #5)
• Split README into README + Get Started
• Bugfixes
• Update documentation titles, function categories and vignette titles

surveysd 0.2.1

• Create vignette for error estimation
• Bugfixes for plotting and ... argument in calc.stError
• Documentation updates. Make example plots available in gh-pages

surveysd 0.2.0

• Automatically pass variable names for household id, weights and reference period from draw.bootstrap to downstream functions
• Reorganize names of R source files

Documentation updates

• Use markown pre-processing for documentation
• Add github pages, more badges and a logo
• export draw.bootstrap and include prettyNames argument. update documenentation examples to use new variable names
• Don't load laeken and data.table in examples
• rewrite vignettes/TheoryWord.Rmd into a dynamic markdown file describing the methodology of the package