weightflow: Weighting Probability and Non-Probability Survey Samples with Recipe-Aware Replicate Variances

Builds survey analysis weights by declaring the whole weighting process as an ordered recipe of explicit adjustments, estimated in a single call: unknown eligibility, within-cluster selection, two-phase subsampling, nonresponse by weighting classes or response-propensity models, calibration and trimming. Calibration to known totals runs on linear, raking or logit distances, bounded, ridge-penalized, model-assisted or integrative with one weight per cluster; a calibrated trim bounds the weights while keeping the control totals exact. Non-probability samples are weighted against a probability reference sample by pseudo-weighting, mass imputation and doubly robust estimators that calibrate a single weight on the fitted values of several working models and on the population totals of the auxiliaries at once, so one multipurpose weight serves many variables. Variances come from a recipe-aware bootstrap and jackknife that re-apply the entire cascade on each replicate, so every adjustment is inside the variance instead of being treated as fixed; across panel waves the replicates are coordinated by carrying forward the selection multiplicities of the sampling units, so the sample overlap enters the variance of a net change as covariance. Rotating and pure panels add attrition, longitudinal weights, gross flows and composite estimation, a self-contained HTML report documents each step, and the weights bridge to the 'survey' and 'srvyr' packages, which are optional: the package itself runs on base R. The methods, and the simulation evidence behind the variance estimators, are described in Ferreira (2026) <doi:10.1177/18747655261484262>.

Version:	1.3.1
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	stats, utils, graphics, parallel
Suggests:	MASS, rpart, ranger, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), survey, srvyr, dplyr, tidyr, ggplot2, haven, archive, knitr, rmarkdown, spelling, xgboost, yaml
Published:	2026-10-16
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.weightflow
Author:	Juan Pablo Ferreira [aut, cre], Andrés Gutiérrez [aut]
Maintainer:	Juan Pablo Ferreira <juanpablo.ferreira at fcea.edu.uy>
BugReports:	https://github.com/jpferreira33/weightflow/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/jpferreira33/weightflow, https://jpferreira33.github.io/weightflow/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-US
Citation:	weightflow citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
In views:	OfficialStatistics
CRAN checks:	weightflow results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

weightflow.html , weightflow.pdf

Vignettes:

Machine learning, cross-fitting and robust calibration (source, R code) Ways to specify calibration totals (source, R code) Calibration: raking, post-stratification and GREG (source, R code) Composite estimation: borrowing strength from the previous wave (source, R code) Coordinated replication: what travels between waves (source, R code) Inspecting and auditing the cascade (source, R code) Model calibration (model-assisted weighting) (source, R code) Non-probability samples (source, R code) Nonresponse: weighting classes, propensities and calibration (source, R code) Pure panels: the longitudinal weight and gross flows (source, R code) Preparing the sample: eligibility and response before weighting (source, R code) Documenting and auditing the weights: the quality report (source, R code) From raw sample to final weights (source, R code) Calibrating to a reference survey (source, R code) Rotating panels: net change, chaining and gross flows (source, R code) Trimming survey weights (source, R code) Two-phase (double) sampling (source, R code) Validation against survey and ReGenesees (source, R code) Variance estimation (source, R code) weightflow in production (GSBPM 5.6) (source, R code) Staged survey weighting: the adjustment logic (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	weightflow_1.3.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: weightflow_1.3.1.zip, r-release: weightflow_1.3.1.zip, r-oldrel: weightflow_1.3.1.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): weightflow_1.3.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): weightflow_1.3.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): weightflow_1.3.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): weightflow_1.3.1.tgz
Old sources:	weightflow archive

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