rescale {psych}R Documentation

Function to convert scores to “conventional " metrics

Description

Psychologists frequently report data in terms of transformed scales such as ``IQ" (mean=100, sd=15, ``SAT/GRE" (mean=500, sd=100), ``ACT" (mean=18, sd=6), ``T-scores" (mean=50, sd=10), or ``Stanines" (mean=5, sd=2). The rescale function converts the data to standard scores and then rescales to the specified mean and standard deviation

Usage

rescale(x, mean = 100, sd = 15,df=TRUE)

Arguments

x A matrix or data frame
mean Desired mean of the rescaled scores
sd Desired standard deviation of the rescaled scores
df if TRUE, returns a data frame, otherwise a matrix

Value

A data.frame or matrix of rescaled scores.

Author(s)

William Revelle

See Also

See Also scale

Examples

T <- rescale(attitude,50,10)
describe(T)

[Package psych version 1.0-42 Index]