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POLS 6386 MEASUREMENT THEORY
Fifth Assignment
Due 25 February 2003


  1. The aim of this problem is to show you how to double-center a matrix in R and extract the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrix.
    
    #                                                             The "#" is a comment statement -- 
    # double_center.r -- Double-Center Program                    that is, it tells the R compiler 
    #                                                             that what follows on this line are 
    # The Data Are assumed to be Squared Distances -- Data Must   comments, not commands!
    #     Be Transformed to Squared Distances Below
    #
    T <- matrix(scan("D:/R_Files/colors.txt",0),ncol=14,byrow=TRUE)  This reads in the Color Matrix Data --  Note that you have to tell it how many columns!
    colornames <- read.csv("D:/R_Files/color_coords.txt",header=T,row.names=1) Same as Homework 4 
    attach(colornames)                Same as Homework 4 
    TT <- T                           Copy matrix T into matrix TT
    nrow <- length(T[,1])             Counts number of rows
    ncol <- length(T[1,])             Counts number of columns
    xrow <- NULL                      Initializes Vector
    xcol <- NULL                      Initializes Vector
    matrixmean <- 0                   Initialize to zero
    #
    # Transform the Matrix            This transforms the similarities data from a range of 
    #                                 0 - 100 to a range of 0 - 4 in squared distances
    i <- 0
    while (i < nrow) {                Note that this loops nrow times because it starts at 0!
      i <- i + 1                      Increment the counter or it will loop forever!
      j <- 0                          Initialize column index to 0
      while (j < ncol) {              Note that this loops ncol times because it starts at 0!
         j <- j + 1                   Increment the counter or it will loop forever!
         TT[i,j] <- ((100 - T[i,j])/50)**2 Here is the Transformation
      }
    }
    T <- TT                           Copy matrix TT into matrix T
    #
    # Set Row and Column Vectors to zero
    i <- 0                            These two loops simply initialize the vectors to zero
    while (i < nrow) {
      i <- i + 1
      xrow[i] <- 0.0
    }
    i <- 0
    while (i < ncol) {
      i <- i + 1
      xcol[i] <- 0.0
    }
    # Compute Row Means and Matrix Mean -- Set TT(,) to Zeroes
    i <- 0                            Set counter to zero
    while (i < nrow) {                Loop over Rows
      i <- i + 1                      Increment the counter or it will loop forever
      j <- 0                          Set column counter to zero
      while (j < ncol) {              Loop over Columns to get Row Means
         j <- j + 1                   Increment the counter or it will loop forever
         xrow[i] <- xrow[i]+T[i,j]/ncol Add up elements in the row (add across columns)
         matrixmean <- matrixmean + T[i,j]/(nrow*ncol) This gives us the matrix mean
         TT[i,j] <- 0                 Initialize matrix TT to zero
      }
    }
    # Compute Column Means
    j <- 0                            Set counter to zero
    while (j < ncol) {                Loop over Columns
      j <- j + 1                      Increment the counter or it will loop forever
      i <- 0                          Set row counter to zero
      while (i < nrow) {              Loop over Rows to get Column Means
         i <- i + 1                   Increment the counter or it will loop forever
         xcol[j] <- xcol[j]+T[i,j]/nrow Add up elements in the column (add across rows)
      }
    }
    # Double-Center the Matrix        This Double-Centers the Matrix
    i <- 0                            Set counter to zero
    while (i < nrow) {                Loop over Rows
      i <- i + 1                      Increment the counter or it will loop forever
      j <- 0                          Set column counter to zero
      while (j < ncol) {              Loop over Columns
         j <- j + 1                   Increment the counter or it will loop forever
         TT[i,j] <- (T[i,j]-xrow[i]-xcol[j]+matrixmean)/(-2) TT is the Double-Centered Matrix
      }
    }                                 End of Double-Center Code
    ev <- eigen(TT)                   Compute the Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
    DIMNEW.1 <- ev$vec[,1]            Put the First Eigenvector in DIMNEW.1
    DIMNEW.2 <- ev$vec[,2]            Put the Second Eigenvector in DIMNEW.2
    plot(DIMNEW.1,DIMNEW.2,type="n",main="The Color Circle From Double Centering",
         xlab="First Dimension",ylab="Second Dimension",
         xlim=c(-1.0,1.0),ylim=c(-1.0,1.0))                   Plot Commands
    text(DIMNEW.1,DIMNEW.2,labels=row.names(colornames),adj=0)
    
    Download the R program and two example files below and place them in the same directory on your disk. Note that you will have to use Epsilon to change the path statements in double_center.r.

    R Program to Perform Double-Centering

    Ekman Color Similarities Matrix

    Color Coordinates With Row Names Used in Homework 4

    Run double_center.r and you should see:



    1. Turn in the Graph.

    2. In R type:

      eigenvalue <- abs(ev$val)
      eigenvalue

      and you should see:
      
       [1] 7.928536e+00 5.197332e+00 1.763696e+00 1.495726e+00 6.338461e-01
       [6] 4.120299e-01 1.660689e-01 1.266656e-01 7.386280e-02 1.666023e-02
      [11] 5.380350e-03 9.296853e-15 1.069314e-01 1.897294e-01
      These are the eigenvalues of the double-centered matrix (technically, the absolute values of the eigenvalues). Paste these into Excel and make a plot like that shown in Home Work Number 3, problem 2.b. Turn in this plot with the appropriate title (e.g., "Eigenvalues of Double-Centered Color Data").

    3. We are going to test Shepard's Universal Law by assuming that the color data are actually generated by an exponential loss function. To do this:

      • Make a copy of double_center.r -- double_center_2.r.

      • Bring double_center_2.r up in Epsilon.

      • Change the line "TT <- T" that comes right after the line "attach(colornames)" to:
        
        TT <- ifelse(T <= 5,5,T)   If T[i,j] £ 5 set T[i,j] = 5, 
                                   else if T[i,j] > 5 leave as is (replace with itself)
      • Right below this line insert the line:

        T <- TT

        These two commands replace any entries in "colors.txt" that are less than 5 with 5 because the natural log of zero is negative infinity!

      • Replace the line "TT[i,j] <- ((100 - T[i,j])/50)**2" with:

        TT[i,j] <- ((-1.0)*log(T[i,j]/100))**2

      Repeat parts (a) and (b) with the plots appropriately titled.

  2. In this problem we are going to use KYST to replicate the analysis done by Herbert F. Weisberg and Jerrold G. Rusk in their 1970 paper "Dimensions of Candidate Evaluation," American Political Science Review, 64 (Dec. 1970): 1167-1185. Download the following data file:

    1968 Election Data

    The 1968 Election Data file contains some variables besides the thermometer scores that we will use in future homeworks. The variables are:
    
    idno           respondent id number
    partyid        strength of party id -- 0 to 6
    income         raw income category
    incomeq        income quintile -- 1 to 5
    race           0 = white, 1 = black
    sex            0 = man, 1 = woman
    south          0 = north, 1 = south
    education      1=HS, 2=SC, 3=College
    age            age in years
    uulbj          lbj position urban unrest
    uuhhh          humphrey pos urban unrest
    uunixon        nixon position urban unrest
    uuwallace      wallace pos urban unrest
    uuself         self placement urban unrest
    vnmlbj         lbj pos vietnam
    vnmhhh         hhh pos vietnam
    vnmnixon       nixon pos vietnam
    vnmwallace     wallace pos vietnam
    vnmself        self placement vietnam
    voted          1=voted, 5=did not vote
    votedfor       who voted for -- 1 = humphrey, 2= nixon, 3=wallace
    wallace        wallace therm
    humphrey       humphrey thermometer
    nixon          nixon thermometer
    mccarthy       mccarthy thermometer
    reagan         reagan thermometer
    rockefeller    rockefeller thermometer
    lbj            lbj thermometer
    romney         romney thermometer
    kennedy        robert kennedy thermometer
    muskie         muskie thermometer
    agnew          agnew thermometer
    lemay          "bombs away with Curtis LeMay" thermometer
    
    1. Make a copy of OLS68B.DAT -- therm68.txt -- and use Epsilon to remove all the variables except the 12 Thermometer Scores. Turn in the Epsilon macro you used to create therm68.txt.

    2. Read the data into R with the command (be sure you use the appropriate path statement!):

      T <- matrix(scan("D:/R_Files/therm68.txt",0),ncol=12,byrow=TRUE)

      The range of the 1968 Feeling Thermometers was 0 to 97 -- 98 and 99 were used as missing values. You need to tell R that 98 and 99 are missing. To do this, use the following command:
      TT <- ifelse(T==98 | T==99,NA,T)  If T[i,j] = 98 or 99 set TT[i,j] = NA (missing data)
                                        else if set TT[i,j] = T[i,j]
      To compute the correlation matrix use the command:

      R <- cor(TT,use="pairwise.complete.obs")

      The "pairwise.complete.obs" tells R to throw away missing data pair-wise, not list-wise (that is, the whole row of data!). Now type:

      R

      and you should something like this:
      
                   [,1]       [,2]        [,3]   ....etc
       [1,]  1.00000000 -0.3108400  0.01690949   ....etc
         .... etc etc etc ...
      You need this correlation matrix to duplicate what Weisberg and Rusk did with KYST. Use Epsilon to copy the correlation matrix into your KYST control card file. Note that you will have to reassemble the matrix using Epsilon and note that because of the pecularities of R, the second column of the matrix has one less digit than the other columns!!! You will have to stick a zero at the end of each correlation in the second column to get everything to work. Your KYST control card file should look something like this:
      
      TORSCA
      PRE-ITERATIONS=3
      DIMMAX=3,DIMMIN=1
      PRINT HISTORY,PRINT DISTANCES                                                
      COORDINATES=ROTATE
      ITERATIONS=50
      REGRESSION=DESCENDING
      DATA,LOWERHALFMATRIX,DIAGONAL=PRESENT,CUTOFF=-2.00
      1968 FEELING THERMOMETER CORRELATION MATRIX
       12  1  1
      (14X,12F12.8)
      Wallace        1.00000000 -0.31084000  0.01690949 ... etc etc
      ...etc etc ...
      COMPUTE
      STOP
      Report the Stress Values for 1, 2, and 3 dimensions and use R to graph the results in two dimensions.

    3. Produce a Shepard Diagram for the two dimensional solution (the horizontal axis is the actual correlation data -- "DATA" in the KYST output file -- and the vertical axis is the estimated distances -- the "DIST" column in the KYST output file).

    4. Make a plot of the first two eigenvectors of the correlation matrix using R (see problem 1 for how to do this -- be certain everything is properly labeled!).

    5. Make a plot of the eigenvalues of the correlation matrix (see problem 1).

    6. In R create the following 12 by 12 matrices (the t(ev$vec) is the transposed 12 by 12 matrix of eigenvectors and the symbol "%*%" is the matrix multiplication command):

      hello <- diag(12)
      ZZ <- t(ev$vec) %*% ev$vec


      Are these two matrices -- hello and ZZ -- the same?

    7. In R create the following matrices:

      diag(hello) <- ev$val
      RWORK <- ev$vec %*% hello %*% t(ev$vec)


      What is RWORK? Be Specific!

  3. In this problem we are going to treat the morse code dataset as an unfolding problem. Download the KYST control card file:

    Morse Code Data in Unfolding Format

    1. Run KYST and note that you will end up with 72 points! Point number 1 is "A" and point number 37 is also "A"! (Ignore the tokens in KYST!! They will be off on this problem because there is no "0" -- zero!) Graph the 72 points with the appropriate labels and appropriate titles in R.

    2. Produce a Shepard Diagram for the two dimensional solution (the horizontal axis is the actual correlation data -- "DATA" in the KYST output file -- and the vertical axis is the estimated distances -- the "DIST" column in the KYST output file).