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Levels for ordinal variable

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 1:36 pm
by 18039202
Hello,

I am looking for some assistance, I have three ordinal variables (Likert scales) from -3 to +3, jamovi has put them as 1-7 for all except one which it has put as 25-31, does anyone know how I can change this? It is skewing my mean calculations.

Thanks,
Evee

Re: Levels for ordinal variable

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 2:14 pm
by jonathon
hi,

you can transform or recode that variable. more info here:

https://blog.jamovi.org/2018/10/23/transforming-variables.html

cheers

jonathon

Re: Levels for ordinal variable

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 3:30 pm
by 18039202
Hi Jonathon,

Thanks for this :)

I have looked over the information and tried to transform the variable however it did not seem to like it, how would i recode the variable?

Re: Levels for ordinal variable

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2020 3:20 am
by jonathon
the easiest way would be to create a computed column, and set the formula to:

variableName - 24

cheers

jonathon

Re: Levels for ordinal variable

Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2020 7:52 pm
by 18039202
Thanks !