rescale: Rescale Estimated Document Positions

In austin: A package for doing things with words

Description

Linearly rescales estimated document positions on the basis of two control points.

Usage

rescale(object, ident=c(1,-1,10,1))

Arguments

object	fitted wordfish or wordscores object
ident	two documents indexes and and their desired new positions

Details

The rescaled positions set document with index ident[1] to position ident[2] and docuemnt with index ident[3] to position ident[4]. The fitted model passed as the first argument is not affected.

Value

A data frame containing the rescaled document positions with standard errors if available.

Author(s)

Will Lowe

austin documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:48 p.m.