collapse function

collapses response categories

Collapses response categories if cell frequencies by group are below a minimum threshold specified by minCell and returns a vector of recoded responses.

collapse(resp, group, minCell)

Arguments

• resp: a vector of item responses
• group: a vector of group designations
• minCell: a minimum cell frequency

Details

Collapses item response categories in resp if the two-way contingency table (resp x group) has cell frequencies less than the minimum cell count threshold specified by minCell.

Returns

a numeric vector of the same length as resp with collapsed/recoded values.

Author(s)

Seung W. Choi choi.phd@gmail.com

Note

The lowest item response category/score should be coded as 1 not 0 (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; and not 0, 1, 2, 3, 4). There must be at least two unique categories after collapsing/recoding.

See Also

recode

Examples

r1 <- c(1,1,2,1,1,2,2,1,2,2,1,2,2,1,1,2,1,2,2,3,3,1,2,3)
  gr <- c(0,0,0,1,1,0,1,1,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1) 
  collapse(r1,gr,2) #minCell=2
  ## returns  c(1,1,2,1,1,2,2,1,2,2,1,2,2,1,1,2,1,2,2,2,2,1,2,2)
  ## response categories 2 and 3 are collapsed