John,

I installed the psych package and all it's dependencies. Then following the
psych manual, I type 

thurstone(x, ranks = FALSE, digits = 2)

the result is

Error: could not find function "thurstone"

Any suggestions?

Best,

Jared

John Fox-6 wrote:
> 
> Dear Jared,
> 
> See ?thurstone in the psych package. RSiteSearch("Thurstone") turns this
> up
> as the first hit. Also see the BradleyTerry package for the similar
> Bradley-Terry model.
> 
> Regards,
>  John
> 
> ------------------------------
> John Fox, Professor
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
> web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org]
> On
>> Behalf Of japomani
>> Sent: January-31-09 5:04 PM
>> To: r-help@r-project.org
>> Subject: [R] thurston case 5
>> 
>> 
>> Hi, I hope some one can help. I need to compute Thurston's case 5 on a
> large
>> set of data. I have gotten as far as computing the proportional
>> preference
>> matrix but the next math is beyond me.
>> 
>> Here us my matrix
>> 
>> 0.500        0.472   0.486   0.587   0.366   0.483   0.496   0.434
>> 0.528        0.500   0.708   0.578   0.633   0.554   0.395   0.620
>> 0.514        0.292   0.500   0.370   0.557   0.580   0.615   0.329
>> 0.413        0.422   0.630   0.500   0.783   0.641   0.731   0.663
>> 0.634        0.367   0.443   0.217   0.500   0.351   0.907   0.686
>> 0.517        0.446   0.420   0.359   0.649   0.500   0.325   0.559
>> 0.504        0.605   0.385   0.269   0.093   0.675   0.500   0.625
>> 0.566        0.380   0.671   0.337   0.314   0.441   0.375   0.500
>> 
>> Can someone help me write an R script to compute the Thurston Case 5
> values?
>> The result should be the scale values for each item.
>> 
>> I found three web pages that might be useful in this, but again, I didn't
>> know enough to translate them into a result.
>> 
>> http://marketing.byu.edu/htmlpages/books/pcmds/THURSTONE.html
>> http://www.personality-project.org/r/thurstone.html
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_comparative_judgment
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Jared
>> --
>> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/thurston-case-5-
>> tp21768835p21768835.html
>> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>> 
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help@r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> 
> 

-- 
View this message in context: 
http://www.nabble.com/thurston-case-5-tp21768835p21781083.html
Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

______________________________________________
R-help@r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

Reply via email to