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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!
 
 

Use multiple questions and a little CSS to make them appear as one.

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)}

Joffm

Maybe this helps:

www.respondage.nl/scoring_an_array/

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.
 
I really appreciate it

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

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.

Joffm 

Hi,
I corrected the typo but I think that still doesn't work.
I attach the .lss file.
Thanks a lot.
 

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

Joffm

It worked! That will help a lot with my research.
Thanks Joffm.

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.

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.