voting: Congressional Voting Records Data Set

In SVMMaj: Implementation of the SVM-Maj Algorithm

Congressional Voting Records Data Set

Description

1984 United Stated Congressional Voting Records; Classify as Republican or Democrat.

Format

X is a data frame with 434 congress members and 16 attributes: 16 key votes identified by the Congressional Quarterly Almanac (CQA). All attributes are binary values, with 1= yes and 0= no.

X1	handicapped-infants
X2	water-project-cost-sharing
X3	adoption-of-the-budget-resolution
X4	physician-fee-freeze
X5	el-salvador-aid
X6	religious-groups-in-schools
X7	anti-satellite-test-ban
X8	aid-to-nicaraguan-contras
X9	mx-missile
X10	immigration
X11	synfuels-corporation-cutback
X12	education-spending
X13	superfund-right-to-sue
X14	crime
X15	duty-free-exports
X16	export-administration-act-south-africa

y consists factors which denotes whether the congress member is a Republican or a Democrat.

The training set voting.tr contains a randomly selected set of 300 subjects, and voting.te contains the remaining 134 subjects. voting contains all 434 objects.

Details

This data set includes votes for each of the U.S. House of Representatives Congressmen on the 16 key votes identified by the CQA. The CQA lists nine different types of votes: voted for, paired for, and announced for (these three simplified to yea), voted against, paired against, and announced against (these three simplified to nay), voted present, voted present to avoid conflict of interest, and did not vote or otherwise make a position known (these three simplified to an unknown disposition).

Source

Chih-Chung Chang and Chih-Jen Lin, LIBSVM : a library for support vector machines, 2001. Software available at https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/.

Examples

attach(voting)
summary(X)
summary(y)

SVMMaj documentation built on Sept. 11, 2024, 6:06 p.m.