1 /* PSPP - Binary encodings for categorical variables.
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3 Written by Jason H Stover <jason@sakla.net>.
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21 Functions and data structures to recode categorical variables into
22 vectors and sub-rows of matrices.
24 To fit many types of statistical models, it is necessary
25 to change each value of a categorical variable to a vector with binary
26 entries. These vectors are then stored as sub-rows within a matrix
27 during model-fitting. We need functions and data strucutres to,
28 e.g., map a value, say 'a', of a variable named 'cat_var', to a
29 vector, say (0 1 0 0 0), and vice versa. We also need to be able
30 to map the vector back to the value 'a', and if the vector is a
31 sub-row of a matrix, we need to know which sub-row corresponds to
32 the variable 'cat_var'.
38 #define CAT_VALUE_NOT_FOUND -2
46 This structure contains the observed values of a
53 size_t n_allocated_categories; /* This is used only during
54 initialization to keep
55 track of the number of
61 Return the number of categories of a categorical variable.
63 size_t cat_get_n_categories (const struct variable *v);