R: Scaling functions

scale_weighted {manifestoR}

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Scaling functions

Description

Scaling functions take a data.frame of variables with information about political parties/text and position the cases on a scale, i.e. output a vector of values. For applying scaling functions directly to text documents, refer to mp_scale.

Usage

scale_weighted(
  data,
  vars = grep("per((\\d{3}(_\\d)?)|\\d{4}|(uncod))$", names(data), value = TRUE),
  weights = 1
)

scale_logit(data, pos, neg, N = data[, "total"], zero_offset = 0.5, ...)

scale_bipolar(data, pos, neg, ...)

scale_ratio_1(data, pos, neg, ...)

scale_ratio_2(data, pos, neg, ...)

Arguments

`data`	A data.frame with cases to be scaled
`vars`	variable names that should contribute to the linear combination; defaults to all CMP category percentage variables in the Manifesto Project's Main Dataset
`weights`	weights of the linear combination in the same order as 'vars'.
`pos`	variable names that should contribute to the numerator ("positively")
`neg`	variable names that should contribute to the denominator ("negatively")
`N`	vector of numbers of quasi sentences to convert percentages to counts
`zero_offset`	Constant to be added to prevent 0/0 and log(0); defaults to 0.5 (smaller than any possible non-zero count)
`...`	further parameters passed on to `scale_weighted`

Details

scale_weighted scales the data as a weighted sum of the variable values

If variable names used for the definition of the scale are not present in the data frame they are assumed to be 0. scale_weighted scales the data as a weighted sum of the category percentages

scale_logit scales the data on a logit scale as described by Lowe et al. (2011).

scale_bipolar scales the data by adding up the variable values in pos and substracting the variable values in neg.

scale_ratio_1 scales the data taking the ratio of the difference of the sum of the variable values in pos and the sum of the variable values in neg to the sum of the variable values in pos and neg as suggested by Kim and Fording (1998) and by Laver & Garry (2000).

scale_ratio_2 scales the data taking the ratio of the sum of the variable values in pos and the sum of the variable values in neg.

References

Lowe, W., Benoit, K., Mikhaylov, S., & Laver, M. (2011). Scaling Policy Preferences from Coded Political Texts. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 36(1), 123-155.

Kim, H., & Fording, R. C. (1998). Voter ideology in western democracies, 1946-1989. European Journal of Political Research, 33(1), 73-97.