get_patterns: Get patterns
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get_patterns

R Documentation

Get patterns

Description

Auxiliary function written in R for providing the necessary information about the patterns generated by raters. This function produces the input for the EM-algorithm.

Usage

get_patterns(data, categorical_levels)

Arguments

`data`	`Matrix` or `data.frame` containing the ratings. The cases are in the rows and the raters are in the columns. Characters in the cells are supported. At least two raters are necessary.
`categorical_levels`	`Vector` containing all possible categories of the content analysis.

Value

Function returns a list with the following components:

`n`	Integer representing the number of different patterns in the data.
`shape`	`Matrix` containing all unique patterns in in the data. Cells of the matrix are characters.
`frq`	`Vector` containing the frequencies of the patterns.
`count`	`Matrix` containing the relative frequencies of the categories within each pattern. The number of rows equals the number of patterns. The number of columns equals the number of categories.