fake_likert: fake_likert

In MrOoijer/myLib: My library files

Description

Create a sample for a likert scale score with given mean and st.dev. This uses a primitive type of simulated annealing for the search. This was written to test the existence of fraudulent numbers in a manuscript by Diederik Stapel.

Usage

fake_likert(N = 16, M = 5, m = 3, d = 1, s = 2, rep.count = 250000,
  eps = 0.005, base = 0, T = 4, test = FALSE)

Arguments

N	the number of observations
M	the highest score
m	the mean to approach
d	the number of scores from base to M that are averaged (usually 1)
s	the standard deviation to approach
rep.count	the maximum number of try's
eps	the tolerance for |m-s|
base	the lowest value of the score (usually 0 or 1)
T	the temperature (set to higher values below sqrt(rep.count) to find rare solutions)
test	set to TRUE to print some test information from the fucntion

Value

a vector with N integers on the likert scale

Examples

# fake_likert(N=16, M=7, base=1, m=4.6, s=3.6) # Cannot exist. Should fail

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