ordinalize function

Ordinalizes the standard normal variable

The function transforms the standard normal variable to an ordinal variable with a specified probability for each category.

ordinalize(pvec, z)

Arguments

• pvec: A vector of probabilities for an ordinal variable. The i-th element of the pvec is the cumulative probability defining the marginal distribution of the ordinal variable. If the variable has k categories, the i-th element of pvec will contain k-1 probabilities. The k-th element is implicitly 1.
• z: A vector of samples from the standard normal distribution.

Returns

A vector of ordinalized variates.