individuals: Extraction function for scaled individuals
In basicspace: Recovering a Basic Space from Issue Scales

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) See Also Examples

individuals is a convenience function to extract the individual/respondent parameters from an aldmck, blackbox, or blackbt object.

1	individuals(object)

object

an aldmck, blackbox, or blackbt output object.

The individual parameters of the estimated output, which can also be recovered as object$individuals (for blackbox or blackbt objects) or object$respondents (for aldmck objects). Please refer to the documentation of aldmck, blackbox, or blackbox_transpose for specifics.

Keith Poole ktpoole@uga.edu

Howard Rosenthal hr31@nyu.edu

Jeffrey Lewis jblewis@ucla.edu

James Lo lojames@usc.edu

Royce Carroll rcarroll@rice.edu

'aldmck', 'blackbox', 'blackbox_transpose'.

data(Issues1980)
Issues1980[Issues1980[,"abortion1"]==7,"abortion1"] <- 8	#missing recode
Issues1980[Issues1980[,"abortion2"]==7,"abortion2"] <- 8	#missing recode

### This command conducts estimates, which we instead load using data()
# Issues1980_bb <- blackbox(Issues1980,missing=c(0,8,9),verbose=FALSE,dims=3,minscale=8)
data(Issues1980_bb)

individuals(Issues1980_bb)