factory_indicators {ivgets}

Function factory for creating indicators from their names

Description

factory_indicators creates a function that takes the name of an indicator and returns the corresponding indicator to be used in a regression. For user-specified indicators, it extracts the corresponding column from the uis matrix.

Usage

factory_indicators(n)

Arguments

n

An integer specifying the length of the indicators.

Details

Argument n should equal the number of observations in the data set which will be augmented with the indicators.

The created function takes a name of an indicator and the original uis argument that was used in indicator saturation and returns the indicator.

Value

factory_indicators returns a function called creator().