GSS: General Social Survey- Sex and Party affiliation

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General Social Survey– Sex and Party affiliation

Description

Data from the General Social Survey, 1991, on the relation between sex and party affiliation.

Format

A data frame in frequency form with 6 observations on the following 3 variables.

sex

a factor with levels female male

party

a factor with levels dem indep rep

count

a numeric vector

Source

Agresti, A. Categorical Data Analysis, 2nd E., John Wiley & Sons, 2002, Table 3.11, p. 106.

Examples

data(GSS)
str(GSS)

# use xtabs to show the table in a compact form
(GSStab <- xtabs(count ~ sex + party, data=GSS))

# fit the independence model
(mod.glm <- glm(count ~ sex + party, family = poisson, data = GSS))

# display all the residuals in a mosaic plot
mosaic(mod.glm,
  formula = ~ sex + party,
  labeling = labeling_residuals,
  suppress=0)

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