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  <dc:title>Sampling Design and Estimation Methods for Natural Resource
Management</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package NRMSampling version 0.2.2</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Provides functions for probability and non-probability sampling
    design, sample selection, and population estimation tailored to natural
    resource management. Probability methods include simple random sampling,
    stratified sampling, systematic sampling, cluster sampling, and
    probability-proportional-to-size sampling. Non-probability methods
    include convenience, judgement-based, and quota sampling. Estimation
    functions cover means, totals, ratio estimators, regression estimators,
    and the unequal-probability estimator of Horvitz and Thompson (1952,
    &lt;doi:10.2307/2280784&gt;) for unequal-probability designs. Utilities support
    biomass, soil-loss, and carbon-stock estimation from field plots. Spatial
    extensions provide random, systematic, stratified, and raster-weighted
    sampling within geographic polygons using the 'sf' and 'terra' packages,
    with extraction of remote-sensing covariates at sample locations.
    Applications include forest inventory, soil erosion monitoring, watershed
    studies, and ecological field surveys.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.1.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: stats, utils</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: sf (&gt;= 1.0.0), terra (&gt;= 1.7.0), ggplot2 (&gt;= 3.4.0), dplyr
(&gt;= 1.1.0), testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0), knitr (&gt;= 1.40), rmarkdown (&gt;=
2.18), covr, spelling</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Sadikul Islam &lt;sadikul.islamiasri@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Sadikul Islam [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2924-7122&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-04-22</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=NRMSampling</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.NRMSampling</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en-US</dc:language>
</oai_dc:dc>
