bayesm (version 3.1-6)

cgetC: 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 \(1\) to \(k\) with different scale usage patterns.

Usage

cgetC(e, k)

Value

A vector of \(k+1\) cut-offs.

Arguments

e

quadratic parameter (\(0 <\) e \(< 1\))

k

items are on a scale from \(1,\ldots, k\)

Warning

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

Author

Rob McCulloch and Peter Rossi, Anderson School, UCLA. .

References

Rossi et al (2001), “Overcoming Scale Usage Heterogeneity,” JASA 96, 20--31.

See Also

rscaleUsage

Examples

cgetC(0.1, 10)