hist_senate_preds: How The FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecast Model Works

Description Usage Format Source

Description

The raw data behind the story "How The FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecast Model Works" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-fivethirtyeight-senate-forecast-model-works/.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 207 rows representing US state elections and 5 variables:

state

Election

year

Year of election

candidate

Last name

forecast_prob

Probability of winning election per FiveThirtyEight Election Day forecast

result

'Win' or 'Loss'

Source

See https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/forecast-methodology


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