ssq: Calculate SSQ (accuracy) of biplot representation for...

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Description

Calculate SSQ (accuracy) of biplot representation for elements and constructs. Each construct and element are vectors in a multidimensional space. When reducing the representation to a lower dimensional space, a loss of information (sum-of-squares) will usually occur. The output of the function shows the proportion of sum-of-squares (SSQ) explained for the elements (constructs) and the amount explained by each principal component. This allows to assess which elements (construct) are represented how well in the current representation. Also it shows how much of the total variation is explained.

Usage

ssq(x, along=2, cum=T, center=1, normalize=0, g=0, h=1 - g,
    col.active=NA, col.passive=NA, digits=1, print=TRUE,
    ...)

Arguments

x	repgrid object.
along	Numeric. Table of sum-of-squares (SSQ) for 1=constructs, 2=elements. Note that currently these calculations only make sense for biplot reperesentations with g=1 and h=1 respectively.
cum	Logical. Return a cumulated table of sum-of-squares? (default is TRUE).
center	Numeric. The type of centering to be performed. 0= no centering, 1= row mean centering (construct), 2= column mean centering (elements), 3= double-centering (construct and element means), 4= midpoint centering of rows (constructs). The default is 1 (row centering).
normalize	A numeric value indicating along what direction (rows, columns) to normalize by standard deviations. 0 = none, 1= rows, 2 = columns (default is 0).
g	Power of the singular value matrix assigned to the left singular vectors, i.e. the constructs.
h	Power of the singular value matrix assigned to the right singular vectors, i.e. the elements.
col.active	Columns (elements) that are no supplementary points, i.e. they are used in the SVD to find principal components. default is to use all elements.
col.passive	Columns (elements) that are supplementary points, i.e. they are NOT used in the SVD but projecte into the component space afterwards. They do not determine the solution. Default is NA, i.e. no elements are set supplementary.
digits	Number of digits to round the output to.
print	Whether to print the oputut to the console (default TRUE).

Value

dataframe containing the explained (cumulated) sum-of-squares for each construct or element on each principal component.

Note

TODO: if g or h is not equal to 1 the SSQ does not measure accuracy of representation as currently the ssq of each point are set in constrast with the pre-transformed matrix.

Author(s)

Mark Heckmann

OpenRepGrid documentation built on May 2, 2019, 4:54 p.m.