1 /* PSPP - a program for statistical analysis.
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18 Functions and data structures to recode categorical variables into
19 vectors and sub-rows of matrices.
21 To fit many types of statistical models, it is necessary
22 to change each value of a categorical variable to a vector with binary
23 entries. These vectors are then stored as sub-rows within a matrix
24 during model-fitting. We need functions and data strucutres to,
25 e.g., map a value, say 'a', of a variable named 'cat_var', to a
26 vector, say (0 1 0 0 0), and vice versa. We also need to be able
27 to map the vector back to the value 'a', and if the vector is a
28 sub-row of a matrix, we need to know which sub-row corresponds to
29 the variable 'cat_var'.
42 void cat_stored_values_create (const struct variable *);
43 void cat_stored_values_destroy (struct cat_vals *);
45 size_t cat_value_find (const struct variable *, const union value *);
47 const union value *cat_subscript_to_value (const size_t,
48 const struct variable *);
51 void cat_value_update (const struct variable *, const union value *);
55 Return the number of categories of a categorical variable.
57 size_t cat_get_n_categories (const struct variable *v);