indexConflict3: Conflict or inconsistenciy measure for grids (Bell, 2004)...

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Description

Measure of conflict or inconsistency as proposed by Bell (2004). The identification of conflict is based on distances rather than correlations as in other measures of conflict indexConflict1 and indexConflict2. It assesses if the distances between all components of a triad, made up of one element and two constructs, satisfies the "triangle inequality" (cf. Bell, 2004). If not, a triad is regarded as conflictive. An advantage of the measure is that it can be interpreted not only as a global measure for a grid but also on an element, construct, and element by construct level making it valuable for detailed feedback. Also, differences in conflict can be submitted to statistical testing procedures.

Usage

indexConflict3(x, p=2, output=1, e.out=NA, e.threshold=NA, c.out=NA,
    c.threshold=NA, trim=20, digits=1, discrepancies=TRUE)

Arguments

x	repgrid object.
p	The power of the Minkowski distance. p=2 will result in euclidean distances, p=1 in city block distances. Any other Minkowski metric can be used as well.
output	Type of output. output=1 will print all results to the console, output=2 will only print the detailed statistics for elements and constructs, 0 will surpress all console output.
e.out	Numeric. A vector giving the indexes of the elements for which detailed stats (number of conflicts per element, discrepancies for triangles etc.) are promted (default codeNA, i. e. no detailed stats).
e.threshold	Numeric. Detailed stats for elements with a an attributable percentage to the overall conflicts higher than the supplied value are printed (default NA).
c.out	Numeric. A vector giving the indexes of the constructs for which detailed stats (discrepancies for triangles etc.) are promted (default codeNA, i. e. no detailed stats).
c.threshold	Numeric. Detailed stats for constructs with a an attributable percentage to the overall conflicts higher than the supplied value are printed (default NA).
trim	The number of characters a construct (element) is trimmed to (default is 10). If NA no trimming is done. Trimming simply saves space when displaying the output.
digits	Numeric. Number of digits to round to (default is 2).
discrepancies	Logical. Whether to show matrices of discrepancies in detailed element and construct stats (default TRUE).

Details

Status: working; output for euclidean and manhattan distance checked against Gridstat output.
TODO: standardization and z-test for discrepancies; Index of Conflict Variation.

Value

A list (invisibly) containing containing:

potential	number of potential conflicts
actual	count of actual conflicts
overall	percentage of conflictive relations
e.count	number of involvements of each element in conflictive relations
e.perc	percentage of involvement of each element in total of conflictive relations
e.count	number of involvements of each construct in conflictive relation
c.perc	percentage of involvement of each construct in total of conflictive relations
e.stats	detailed statistics for prompted elements
c.stats	detailed statistics for prompted constructs

Author(s)

Mark Heckmann

References

Bell, R. C. (2004). A new approach to measuring inconsistency or conflict in grids. Personal Construct Theory & Practice, (1), 53-59.

See Also

See indexConflict1 and indexConflict2 for conflict measures based on triads of correlations.

Examples

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