anchors: Software for Anchoring Vignette Data

When respondents use the ordinal response categories of standard survey questions in different ways, the validity of analyses based on the resulting data can be biased. Anchoring vignettes is a survey design technique intended to correct for some of these problems. The anchors package in R includes...

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Main Authors: Jonathan Wand, Gary King, Olivia Lau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2011-08-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
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Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/v42/i03/paper
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description When respondents use the ordinal response categories of standard survey questions in different ways, the validity of analyses based on the resulting data can be biased. Anchoring vignettes is a survey design technique intended to correct for some of these problems. The anchors package in R includes methods for evaluating and choosing anchoring vignettes, and for analyzing the resulting data.
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spelling doaj.art-f815751a5cfc44d893a941e18e0ca3772022-12-21T18:43:44ZengFoundation for Open Access StatisticsJournal of Statistical Software1548-76602011-08-014203anchors: Software for Anchoring Vignette DataJonathan WandGary KingOlivia LauWhen respondents use the ordinal response categories of standard survey questions in different ways, the validity of analyses based on the resulting data can be biased. Anchoring vignettes is a survey design technique intended to correct for some of these problems. The anchors package in R includes methods for evaluating and choosing anchoring vignettes, and for analyzing the resulting data.http://www.jstatsoft.org/v42/i03/papersurvey researchitem responsedifferential item functioningR
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anchors: Software for Anchoring Vignette Data
Journal of Statistical Software
survey research
item response
differential item functioning
R
title anchors: Software for Anchoring Vignette Data
title_full anchors: Software for Anchoring Vignette Data
title_fullStr anchors: Software for Anchoring Vignette Data
title_full_unstemmed anchors: Software for Anchoring Vignette Data
title_short anchors: Software for Anchoring Vignette Data
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topic survey research
item response
differential item functioning
R
url http://www.jstatsoft.org/v42/i03/paper
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