| Carlson, Software for Statistical Analysis of Sample Survey Data (4341 words) |
 | Statistical methods for estimating population parameters and their associated variances are based on assumptions about the characteristics and underlying distribution of the observations. |
| Packages should have the capacity to handle nonstandard designs, or provide guidance in the documentation as to the most appropriate design to specify in these circumstances and what the consequences are (such as an overestimate of the variance). |
| Depending on the specialized package and the estimates desired, it may be necessary to then take the output from the specialized package and carry out further data manipulation in the original general-purpose (or yet another) statistical package to obtain the needed estimates. |
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