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Scoring Methodology for Ordered Factors

Last update: 21 November 2023

Software version identifier: 1.0

Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 3.0, GNU General Public License, version 2.0

Starting from a given object representing a fitted model (within a certain set of model classes) whose linear predictor includes some ordered factor(s) among the explanatory variables, a new model is constructed and fitted where each named factor is replaced by a single numeric score, suitably chosen so that the new variable produces a fit comparable with the standard methodology based on a set of polynomial contrasts. Reference: Azzalini (2023) <doi:10.1002/sta4.624>.

Cites work

On the use of ordered factors as explanatory variables