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2 years 4 months ago - 2 years 4 months ago #242803 by Episteme Investigación e Intervención Social
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Hi,
I am building a psychological scale in which each answer counts X points depending the subquestion. For example, in subquestion Y001, X001 counts 1 point so I code it with the number 1. Instead, in subquestion Y002, response X001 counts 5 points, so I would like to code it with the number 5. This way, when I download the code responses I just have to sum all the points and I don't have to look to each scale to see which response counts different. I saw there's the option called equation value, but how I should change it in the same array? Is that possible?
Thank you very much!
 
 
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2 years 4 months ago #242805 by tpartner
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Use multiple questions and a little CSS to make them appear as one.
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2 years 4 months ago - 2 years 4 months ago #242806 by Joffm
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Hi, reading the "Calculo de indices" you want to calculate a mean of all subquestions.
This you can do easily with a question of type "equation".

First rename the codes of your subquestions.
E.g.
R01, R02, R03,... for the "regular" items
I01,I02,I03,...for the "inverse" items.

Now you calculate the mean (the index) with (if the question code is "Q1") in your question of type "equation"
{sum(sum(that.Q1.sq_R.NAOK),6*count(that.Q1.sq_I.NAOK)-sum(that.Q1:sq_I.NAOK))/count(that.Q1.NAOK)}

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2 years 4 months ago #242808 by tammo
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Maybe this helps:

www.respondage.nl/scoring_an_array/
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2 years 4 months ago #242823 by Episteme Investigación e Intervención Social
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Hi Joffm,
I loved your solution. I tried it and there's some kind of error I think with this part of the code: 
 
I send you the .lsg format anyway.
 

File Attachment:

File Name: Arrayequat...ints.lsg
File Size:23.15 KB

I really appreciate it

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2 years 4 months ago #242826 by Episteme Investigación e Intervención Social
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Thanks tpartner. I don't know how to do a CSS to show them that way. Is there a prestablished way to do it in Lime? That could be a nice solution tho. Thanks

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2 years 4 months ago - 2 years 4 months ago #242829 by Joffm
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This is a small typo.
It's not a colon but a dot.

And for the other way to merge several questions by css,
search for classes "no-question" and "no-bottom".

And, please, do neither provide lsq  nor lsg exports. Only lss.

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2 years 4 months ago #242837 by Episteme Investigación e Intervención Social
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Hi,
I corrected the typo but I think that still doesn't work.
I attach the .lss file.
Thanks a lot.
 

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2 years 4 months ago - 2 years 4 months ago #242839 by Joffm
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Not surprising if you enter the equation here
 

As the tooltip says, this is used to store a value in the database, but not display it.
You may use this, if you want to display something with one equation, but store a different value in the database.

To show your result, please here
 

Then you get
 

And you should use the "round()" function not to display values like 2.93125467312

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2 years 4 months ago #242842 by Episteme Investigación e Intervención Social
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It worked! That will help a lot with my research.
Thanks Joffm.

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2 years 4 months ago #242933 by Episteme Investigación e Intervención Social
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One more thing. I would like to calculate other scales with other items and scores so I would like to fully understand your equation to be able to do others. If you can clarify this it would be very helpful.

In this case, your equation looks like this:

{sum(sum(that.Q1.sq_R.NAOK),6*count(that.Q1.sq_I.NAOK)-sum(that.Q1.sq_I.NAOK))/count(that.Q1.NAOK)}

that means:
(Regular items + (6*Irregular items)) - (Irregular items) / All 12 items

There are 5 regular items (a,d,e,i,k) and 7 irregular (rest)

If I have a scale with, e.g., 10 items, 7 regular and 2 irregular. How the equation should be?

I appreciate your help.

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2 years 1 week ago #246074 by Episteme Investigación e Intervención Social
Replied by Episteme Investigación e Intervención Social on topic How to change response code depending subquestion in an Array
One more thing. I would like to calculate other scales with other items and scores so I would like to fully understand your equation to be able to do others. If you can clarify this it would be very helpful.

In this case, your equation looks like this:

{sum(sum(that.Q1.sq_R.NAOK),6*count(that.Q1.sq_I.NAOK)-sum(that.Q1.sq_I.NAOK))/count(that.Q1.NAOK)}

that means:
(Regular items + (6*Irregular items)) - (Irregular items) / All 12 items

There are 5 regular items (a,d,e,i,k) and 7 irregular (rest)

If I have a scale with, e.g., 10 items, 7 regular and 2 irregular. How the equation should be?

I appreciate your help.

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2 years 1 week ago #246079 by Joffm
Replied by Joffm on topic How to change response code depending subquestion in an Array

10 items, 7 regular and 2 irregular. How the equation should be?

And the 10th item is...?
The equation is absolutely analogue.
The only vatiable value is the "6", that depends on your scale.
6: if it is a scale 1-5
8: if it is a scale 1-7

And of course you change the codes of your subquestions.
In this example I used
R001, R002, ... for Regular items
I001, I002,... for Irregular items.

Read again about the use of "self" and "that"
[url] www.limesurvey.org/manual/ExpressionScri....22that.22_variables [/url]

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2 years 1 week ago #246083 by linuxhooligan
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This thread has helped me as well. Thanks everyone! Limesurvey and this community are incredible.

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