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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@debian.org>  Sun, 08 Jan 2017 17:03:04 +0100