houseVotes: Congressional Voting Records Data

In fclust: Fuzzy Clustering

Congressional Voting Records Data

Description

1984 United Stated Congressional Voting Records for each of the U.S. House of Representatives Congressmen on the 16 key votes identified by the Congressional Quarterly Almanac.

Usage

data(houseVotes)

Format

A data.frame with 435 rows on 17 columns (16 qualitative variables and 1 classification variable).

Details

The data collect 1984 United Stated Congressional Voting Records for each of the 435 U.S. House of Representatives Congressmen on the 16 key votes identified by the Congressional Quarterly Almanac (CQA). The variable class splits the observations in democrat and republican. The qualitative variables refer to the votes on handicapped-infants, water-project-cost-sharing, adoption-of-the-budget-resolution, physician-fee-freeze, el-salvador-aid, religious-groups-in-schools, anti-satellite-test-ban, aid-to-nicaraguan-contras, mx-missile, immigration, synfuels-corporation-cutback, education-spending, superfund-right-to-sue, crime, duty-free-exports, and export-administration-act-south-africa. All these 16 variables are objects of class factor with three levels according to the CQA scheme: y refers to the types of votes ”voted for”, ”paired for” and ”announced for”; n to ”voted against”, ”paired against” and ”announced against”; codeyn to ”voted present”, ”voted present to avoid conflict of interest” and ”did not vote or otherwise make a position known”.

Author(s)

Paolo Giordani, Maria Brigida Ferraro, Alessio Serafini

Source

https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/congressional+voting+records

References

Schlimmer, J.C., 1987. Concept acquisition through representational adjustment. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA.

See Also

NEFRC, NEFRC.noise

Examples

data(houseVotes)
X=houseVotes[,-1]
class=houseVotes[,1]

fclust documentation built on Nov. 16, 2022, 5:10 p.m.