LBG2003: Example Data

Description Details References

Description

Example data from Laver Benoit and Garry (2003)

Details

This is the example word count data from Laver, Benoit and Garry's (2000) article on Wordscores. Documents R1 to R5 are assumed to have known positions: -1.5, -0.75, 0, 0.75, 1.5. Document V1 is assumed unknown. The ‘correct’ position for V1 is presumably -0.45. classic.wordscores generates approximately -0.45.

To replicate the analysis in the paper, use the wordscores function either with identification fixing the first 5 document positions and leaving position of V1 to be predicted.

LBG2003 is a jl_df object.

References

M. Laver, K. Benoit and J. Garry (2003) 'Estimating policy positions from political text using words as data' American Political Science Review. 97(2) 311-331.


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