type: the default is to return the formal number of intercepts used when fitting the model. Set type='var' to return the actual number of intercepts stored in the var object, or type='coef' to return the actual number in the fitted coefficients. The former will be less than the number fitted for orm fits, and the latter for orm fits passed through fit.mult.impute. If the var object is not present, the number of intercepts is determined from the ab element of the info.matrix object if it is present.
Returns
num.intercepts returns an integer with the number of intercepts in the model.