Create a Composite Factor — composite • englelab

Create a composite factor from a list of variables. A composite factor can be formed using a mean, sum, factor analysis, or principal components.

composite(
  x,
  name = NULL,
  variables,
  type = "mean",
  standardize = TRUE,
  missing_allowed = NULL
)

Arguments

x: data frame
name: Name of the new composite variable
variables: c() of columns to average together to create the composite
type: What type of composite should be calculated? options are "mean", "sum", "fa" (factor analysis using psych::fa), or "pca" (principal component analysis using psych::pca). Default is "mean"
standardize: Logical. Do you want to calculate the composite based on standardize (z-score) variables? (Default = TRUE)
missing_allowed: Criteria for how many variables can having missing values and still calculate a composite