A fast algorithm for balanced sampling

  • Authors:
  • Guillaume Chauvet;Yves Tillé

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire de Statistique d'Enquête, CREST-ENSAI, Bruz, France 35170;Statistics Group, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchtel, Switzerland 2002

  • Venue:
  • Computational Statistics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The cube method (Deville & Tillé 2004) is a large family of algorithms that allows selecting balanced samples with equal or unequal inclusion probabilities. In this paper, we propose a very fast implementation of the cube method. The execution time does not depend on the square of the population size anymore, but only on the population size. Balanced samples can thus be selected in very large populations of several hundreds of thousands of units.