summary.blackbt {basicspace}R Documentation

Blackbox-Transpose Summary

Description

summary.blackbt reads an blackbt object and prints a summary.

Usage

  summary.blackbt(x)             

Arguments

x an blackbt output object.

Value

A summary of a blackbt object. For each dimension, reports all stimuli with coordinates, individuals used for scaling, and fit. Also summarizes number of rows, columns, total data entries, number of missing entries, percent missing data, and sum of squares.

Author(s)

Keith Poole kpoole@ucsd.edu

Howard Rosenthal rosentha@princeton.edu

Jeffrey Lewis jblewis@ucla.edu

James Lo jameslo@ucla.edu

Royce Carroll rcarroll@rice.edu

See Also

'blackbox_transpose', 'LC1980', 'plot.blackbt', 'plotcdf.blackbt'.

Examples

### Loads and scales the Liberal-Conservative scales from the 1980 NES.
data(LC1980)
LCdat=LC1980[,-1]       #Dump the column of self-placements
result <- blackbox_transpose(LCdat,missing=c(0,8,9),dims=3,minscale=5,verbose=TRUE)
plot(result)
par(ask=T)
plotcdf.blackbt(result)
summary(result)

[Package basicspace version 0.01 Index]