qmethod - 1.8.4 (in CRAN)

Contains all the latest enhancements (2021-3): GUI improvements, updated links in documentation, updates to the cookbook, additional reminders to inspect results manually, link to external video demonstration, widened options available for bootstrapping, enhanced plot, updates required by CRAN.

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Published by aiorazabala about 3 years ago

qmethod - 1.8.1 Latest CRAN version plus minor enhancements

• Package dependencies transformed into suggests for shiny, rjson, MCMCpack

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Published by aiorazabala over 5 years ago

qmethod - 1.7.2 Centroid extraction and GUI

• Implemented centroid() for centroid extraction, written by Frans Hermans, as a separate function.
• Wrapped centroid() in qmethod() as a new attribute extraction="centroid" OR "PCA". Test conducted to confirm that the wrapping in qmethod() and the step-by-step manual analysis as shown in the example in ?centroid() are the exact same.
• Added package version to results$brief in both qmethod() and qzscores().
• Added warning notes to uncommon exercises in Q: bootstrapping, FSI indicator, rotations other than varimax.
• Found and reported that the URL for FlashQ doesn't work anymore.
• Enhanced help for qindtest(), explicitly saying it implements the "reordering-reflection" solution from Zabala & Pascual.
• Updated/ improved various help pages as necessary.
• Streamlined data types for 'loadings', 'SD diff' and 'flagged' (#277)--this added several bugs which were then fixed in earlier commits after v1.7.
• Integrated Graphical User Interface (previously external files) as runInterface(), and added centroid option to it.
• Added function to import data from easy-HTMLQ.

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Published by aiorazabala over 5 years ago

qmethod - 1.5.6-beta

Latest release on CRAN from 2020-02-13 (v1.5.5), plus several minor enhancements (commits until 2020-12-09).

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Published by aiorazabala over 5 years ago

qmethod - 1.5.2 Fix in plot of bootstrap results

Added colour to the dots of the second and subsequent factors.

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Published by aiorazabala over 9 years ago

qmethod - 1.5.1 Minor enhancement to plot function

New argument in plot, called factors. Now in plot, one can specify which factors to print (from those in the object of results) and in which order.

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Published by aiorazabala over 9 years ago

qmethod - 1.5.0 Enhancements here and there

Several enhancements: - Added option to reorder items in the plot of z-scores - Added option to use Kendall or Spearman correlation coefficients, also in the bootstrap function

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Published by aiorazabala over 9 years ago

qmethod - Enhanced graphs and some fixes

The plot function now highlights the distinguishing scores (filled symbols). Where the z-score of a statement is significantly different from the z-score for other factors, the z-score is highlighted. This indicates that the statement is distinguishing for a given factor. For example, in the figure statement 16 is distinguishing for factor 3, and statement 33 is distinguishing for all factors.

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Published by aiorazabala over 10 years ago

qmethod - Bootstrapping Q

Includes all the functions necessary for bootstrapping Q, in order to implement the process explained in Zabala, accepted. Bootstrapping Q Methodology to Improve the Understanding of Human Perspectives.

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Published by aiorazabala over 10 years ago

qmethod - Import Functions, Make Cards, Small Fixes

This release for qmethod includes a number of small fixes and enhancements, as well as several new functions that should make it much easier to administer Q studies in a systematic way. - Import functions It is now possible to import a concourse of statements from raw text files into qmethod, and to then sample a Q set (#5), all within R. Similarly, you can now import completed Q sorts in their raw form, as prepared by participants into qmethod, and use them for your analyses, including several tests for the consistency and completeness of the Q sorts. It is also possible to import item feedback by participants in a systematic way. With these functions, qmethod is moving closer to an ideal of reproducible research, where all the steps from raw items and data to final factor intepretation can be tracked and documented programmatically. For suggested best practice in data management for Q studies consult the wiki - Print functions qmethod now also includes a function to conveniently print a Q set of statements on business cards, easily broken into individual cards, ready for administration, as in the below picture.

Small enhancements and fixes (see details) - New function (q.fnames()) to rename the factors in the results, so that meaningful names are shown when exploring with functions such as print() or summary() (see details) - Function qdc() now reports differences in z-scores, not absolute differences (see details) - Fixed validation line in qmethod(), now values of both classes numeric and integer go ahead. (Thanks Frans Hermans!) - Scientific notation is avoided when using print() function for objects of class QmethodRes - Added additional validation to report an error if forced = TRUE but the data contains Q-sorts which do not follow the forced distribution, and improved error messages (Thanks Sèbastien Dujardin!)

Join the discussion (and development!) qmethod is an open source software project created by @aiorazabala and now open for suggestions and contributions from everyone. This process – which can easily be quite chaotic – is managed on the qmethod github repository, a popular service for open source development. Everyone is invited to join the discussion, suggest new issues or hack away at more features. If you've never tried git(hub), we encourage you to check it out – it's quite a boon for scientific collaboration.

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Published by maxheld83 about 11 years ago

qmethod - 1.3.1. Import data from HTMLQ and FlashQ

Added function to import from HTMLQ and FlashQ. Submitted on 3 May 2015 to CRAN.

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Published by aiorazabala about 11 years ago