Marketing - MaxDiff - Save Variable(s) - Class Membership Probabilities

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Create new variables which contain the probabilities of respondents belonging to each class, from a MaxDiff latent class analysisMaxDiff latent class analysis output. You should select the output before running this script.

Example

The script produces a SUMMARY table with the new variables:

Classmembership.PNG

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Customizing the QScript

This QScript is written in JavaScript and can be customized by copying and modifying the JavaScript.

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Customizing QScripts in older versions

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  • Create a new text file, giving it a file extension of .QScript. See here for more information about how to do this.
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JavaScript

includeWeb('QScript R Output Functions');

classMembershipProbabilitiesMaxDiff();

function classMembershipProbabilitiesMaxDiff() {

    let selected_item = getSelectedROutputFromPage([]);

    if (selected_item == null) {
        log("The selected item is not valid. You should calculate it again before running this option.");
        return false;
    }

    let expected_class = getExpectedClassForMaxDiff(selected_item);

    saveVariables('Class membership probabilities', 'MaxDiff latent class analysis',
              'input.maxdiff = ',
              '\nif (!is.null(input.maxdiff$covariates.notes))\n' +
              '    stop("Class membership probabilities are not available for varying coefficients outputs.")\n' +
              'probs = input.maxdiff$posterior.probabilities\n' +
              'colnames(probs) = paste0("Class ", 1:ncol(probs))\n' +
              'probs', null, null, 'cls.memb.prob', expected_class);

}

See also

See MaxDiff Software or What is MaxDiff? for an overview of key MaxDiff concepts and resources.