expand_responses: Helper functions for manipulating generated responses

In tzoltak/rstyles: Generating Simulated Data Mimicking Response Styles to Survey Questions

Helper functions for manipulating generated responses

Description

Using scoring matrix provided as its second argument function expands (recodes) responses to each item (column) in a provided matrix of responses into a set of variables that may be put into model estimation.

Usage

expand_responses(responses, scoringMatrix)

Arguments

responses	a matrix of responses with items in columns and observations in rows
scoringMatrix	a matrix describing scoring patterns on each latent trait

Value

A matrix (of integers)

Examples

sM <- make_scoring_matrix_aem(5, "mae")
responses <- matrix(sample(1L:5L, 20, replace = TRUE), ncol = 4,
                    dimnames = list(NULL, paste0("item", 1:4)))
responses
sM
expand_responses(responses, sM)

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