cgetC {bayesm}R Documentation

Obtain A List of Cut-offs for Scale Usage Problems

Description

cgetC obtains a list of censoring points, or cut-offs, used in the ordinal multivariate probit model of Rossi et al (2001). This approach uses a quadratic parameterization of the cut-offs. The model is useful for modeling correlated ordinal data on a scale from 1, ..., k with different scale usage patterns.

Usage

cgetC(e, k)

Arguments

e quadratic parameter (>0 and less than 1)
k items are on a scale from 1, ..., k

Value

A vector of k+1 cut-offs.

Warning

This is a utility function which implements no error-checking.

Author(s)

Rob McCulloch and Peter Rossi, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. Peter.Rossi@ChicagoGsb.edu.

References

Rossi et al (2001), “Overcoming Scale Usage Heterogeneity,” JASA96, 20-31.

See Also

rscaleUsage

Examples

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cgetC(.1,10)

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