Anchors: Software for Anchoring Vignettes
Anchors is a complete library of statistical functions for
analyzing survey data with anchoring vignettes as an R library. This website contains
the latest version of software and documentation for Anchors.
Installation and Downloads
The easiest way to install the latest version (2.0), if you have an
active network connection, is to type in a R session:
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install.packages("anchors", dependencies = TRUE,
repos=c("http://wand.stanford.edu/R/CRAN","http://cran.r-project.org"))
Alternatively, the anchors package may be directly downloaded:
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R Source Package: anchors_2.0.tar.gz
- Windows binary Package (R-2.4): anchors_2.0.zip
and 'rgenoud' (a package dependency) is also available for direct
download here.
Documentation and Related Papers
Credible Comparisons Using Interpersonally
Incomparable Data: Ranking self-evaluations relative to
anchoring vignettes or other common survey
questions
- Jonathan Wand.
Anchors: Software for Anchoring Vignette Data
- Jonathan Wand, Gary King and Olivia Lau. 2007. Forthcoming at
Journal of Statistical Software
Anchoring Vignetttes in R: A (different kind of) Vignette
- Jonathan Wand and Gary King. 2007.
Comparing Incomparable Survey Responses:
Evaluating and Selecting Anchoring Vignettes
- Gary King and Jonathan Wand. 2007. Political Analysis. 15:46--66
Additional Resources
Have questions, comments, or suggestions regarding the Anchors
software? Please contact Jonathan Wand by email: wand(at)stanford.edu.
For examples of vignette questions
see the
Anchoring Vignettes Website
Return to Jonathan Wand's homepage