vanilla

data

variable names that should be used for the scaling (usually the variables per101,per102,...)

vars

invert scores (to change the direction of the dimension to facilitate comparison with other indices) (default is FALSE)

invert

Computes scores based on the Vanilla method suggested by Gabel & Huber.
A factor analysis identifies the dominant dimension in the data.
Factor scores using the regression method are then considered as party positions on this dominant dimension.

Provides access to coded election programmes from
    the Manifesto Corpus and to the Manifesto Project's Main Dataset. The Manifesto
    Project (https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu) collects and analyses election
    programmes across time and space to measure the political preferences
    of parties. The Manifesto Corpus contains the collected
    and annotated election programmes in the Corpus format of the package 'tm' to enable
    easy use of text processing and text mining functionality. Specific functions
    for scaling of coded political texts are included.

vanilla: Vanilla Scaling by Gabel & Huber

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