ForImp (version 1.0.3)

transfmatcat: Transforming a matrix of continuous values into a matrix of ordinal values

Description

The function transforms a matrix of continuous numerical values into a matrix of integer (ordinal) values, with uniform marginal distributions and the desired number of categories

Usage

transfmatcat(mat, cat = 3)

Arguments

mat

a matrix or a dataframe

cat

the number of categories, one for each column/variable of the matrix/dataframe

Value

the matrix of ordinal values

Details

The function converts the matrix in input, containing continuous numerical values, into a matrix of ordinal values (1,2,3,... i.e.: Likert scale) according to the cat-1 normal quantiles corresponding to each variable (column) of mat.

References

Ferrari P.A., Barbiero A., Manzi G.: Handling missing data in presence of ordinal variables: a new imputation procedure. In "New Perspectives in Statistical Modeling and Data Analysis", S. Ingrassia, R. Rocci, M. Vichi, Eds., Springer, 2011

Ferrari P.A., Annoni P., Barbiero A., Manzi G. (2011) An imputation method for categorical variables with application to nonlinear principal component analysis, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, vol. 55, issue 7, pages 2410-2420, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167947311000521

See Also

rancatmat

Examples

# generate a 40*3 matrix from a multivariate normal r.v.
# whose independent components have mean 10 and standard deviation 4
mat<-matrix(rnorm(40,3),10,4)
# transform the matrix of normal data into a matrix of ordinal data
transfmatcat(mat, cat=c(2,3,4,3))