Labels of facets and elements = (required)

Labels = (Nobuild)

Facet number ,

Facet label or name,

Anchoring,  (A,D,G,X)
+ No group reporting (N)

Estimation priority

Element number =

Element label or name,

Measure,

starting value, anchor value or group-anchor value

Group number,

for group-reporting or group-anchoring

Element weight,

defaults to 1.0

Target element number for merged elements: observations in the data with the Element number are assigned to the Target element number. Example:

1= , , , , 2 so that 1's become 2's in the data for this facet

*

Facet

Anchor/Group code

Element Specification

Description

(None)

Element number = (label), (value), Group number

Group number is used for reporting groups of elements in Table 7

A

Element number = (label), Value, (group number)

Element measure is anchored at Value. Groups reported if there is a group number.

D

Element number = (label), (value), (group number)

Element measure is anchored at Umean= value. Groups reported if there is a group number.

G

Element number = (label), Value, Group number

Each element measure is measured independently but the sum of the measures of the group of elements are constrained to equal the sum of their Values.

X

Element number = (label), Value, Group number

The same as G, but elements with extreme scores (zero, perfect) are excluded.

...N

Element number = (label), (value), (group number)

This suppresses group reporting for a facet in Table 7.  Groups are ignored for measure reporting.

Labels=

2=Persons,GN ; group-anchoring wanted, but Table 7 does not report measures for each group separately

1=Ben,0,1 ; Ben is in group 1

2=Mike,0,2 ; Mike is in group 2

......

Valid Numerical Ranges

Facets

1 - 255

Any number in the range is valid. They do not need to start at 0 or 1, nor do they need to be in sequence.

Elements

Element numbers are in the range 1 - 2,147,438,648

Element 0 is usually the null element number, meaning "this facet does not apply to this observation." Element 0 can be used as an element number, provided Null element= is used to change the null element number from 0 to another number.

Group numbers

0-255

0 means "no group"

Observations

0-255 (can be rescored with Rating scale=)