bws.questionnaire {support.BWS} | R Documentation |
Converting a two-level OMED/BIBD into BWS questions
Description
This function converts a two-level orthogonal main-effect design (OMED)/balanced incomplete block design (BIBD) into a series of BWS questions.
Usage
bws.questionnaire(choice.sets, design.type, item.names)
Arguments
choice.sets |
A data frame or matrix containing choice sets. |
design.type |
A value describing how to design the choice sets: |
item.names |
A vector containing the names of items shown in the questions. |
Details
A two-level OMED/BIBD is assigned to choice.sets
, and may be generated by R functions (e.g., the oa.design
function in DoE.base; the find.BIB
function in crossdes) or copied manually from text books/web sites related to the design of experiments.
When the design is a two-level OMED, each row corresponds to a question and each column corresponds to an item. The level values in the design have to be 1 and 2. The former corresponds to an item being “absent” from a column and the latter corresponds to the item being “present.” The correspondence between item names and columns is defined and assigned to the argument item.names
: the order of names in the vector assigned to item.names
corresponds to the order of columns (from left to right) in the choice sets assigned to choice.sets
.
When the design is a BIBD, each row corresponds to a question and the number of columns is equal to the number of items per question. The level values in the design have to be serial integer values, starting from 1: each value corresponds to an item. The correspondence between item names and level values is defined and assigned to the argument item.names
: the order of names in item.names
corresponds to the order of level values in the design (i.e., the j
th item in item.names
corresponds to the level value of j
in the design).
Value
BWS questions converted from the design are returned.
Author(s)
Hideo Aizaki
See Also
bws.dataset
, oa.design
, find.BIB
Examples
## See examples in bws.dataset()