summary.aldmck: Aldrich-McKelvey Summary
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summary.aldmck

R Documentation

Aldrich-McKelvey Summary

Description

summary.aldmck reads an aldmck object and prints a summary.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'aldmck'
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

`object`	an `aldmck` output object.
`...`	further arguments to `print`.

Value

A summary of an aldmck object. Reports number of stimuli, respondents scaled, number of respondents with positive and negative weights, R-squared, Reudction of normalized variance of perceptions, and stimuli locations.

Author(s)

Keith Poole ktpoole@uga.edu

Howard Rosenthal hr31@nyu.edu

Jeffrey Lewis jblewis@ucla.edu

James Lo lojames@usc.edu

Royce Carroll rcarroll@rice.edu

Christopher Hare cdhare@ucdavis.edu

References

John H. Aldrich and Richard D. McKelvey. 1977. “A Method of Scaling with Applications to the 1968 and 1972 Presidential Elections.” American Political Science Review 71(1): 111-130. doi: 10.2307/1956957

David A. Armstrong II, Ryan Bakker, Royce Carroll, Christopher Hare, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal. 2021. Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment. 2nd ed. Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Series. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC. doi: 10.1201/9781315197609

Thomas R. Palfrey and Keith T. Poole. 1987. “The Relationship between Information, Ideology, and Voting Behavior.” American Journal of Political Science 31(3): 511-530. doi: 10.2307/2111281

Keith T. Poole, Jeffrey B. Lewis, Howard Rosenthal, James Lo, and Royce Carroll. 2016. “Recovering a Basic Space from Issue Scales in R.” Journal of Statistical Software 69(7): 1-21. doi:10.18637/jss.v069.i07

Keith T. Poole. 1998. “Recovering a Basic Space From a Set of Issue Scales.” American Journal of Political Science 42(3): 954-993. doi: 10.2307/2991737

Examples

	### Loads the Liberal-Conservative scales from the 1980 ANES.
	data(LC1980)
	
	result <- aldmck(data=LC1980, polarity=2, respondent=1, missing=c(0,8,9), verbose=TRUE)
	
	summary(result)
	plot.aldmck(result)

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