mscale: Extract/Replace Measurement Scale

View source: R/paircomp.R

mscaleR Documentation

Extract/Replace Measurement Scale

Description

Generic functions for extracting and replacing the measurement scale from an object.

Usage

  mscale(object, ...)
  mscale(object) <- value

Arguments

object

an object.

...

arguments passed to methods.

value

an object describing the measurement scale.

Examples

## methods for "paircomp" data
pc <- paircomp(rbind(
  c(2,  1,  0),
  c(1,  1, -1),
  c(1, -2, -1),
  c(0,  0,  0)))
pc

## extract
mscale(pc)

## replace (collapse to >/=/< scale)
mscale(pc) <- sign(mscale(pc))
pc


## similar for "itemresp" data
ir <- itemresp(cbind(
  c(-1, 0, 1, 1, 0),
  c(0, 1, 2, 1, 2),
  c(1, 2, 1, 1, 3)))
ir

## extract
mscale(ir)

## replace (single scale for all items)
mscale(ir) <- 1:3
ir

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