rcx: DW-Nominate estimates for the House
In davidaarmstrong/asmcjr: Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment with R

rcx	R Documentation

DW-Nominate estimates for the House

Description

A data frame with variables relating to legislator ideology

Usage

data(rcx)

Format

A data frame with the following variables:

cong: Congress
id: Legislator ID
state: Legislator's state (numeric code)
dist: Congressional district
lstate: Legislator's state (name)
party: Legislator's political party
name: Legislator's name
dwnom1: DW-Nominate first dimension score.
dwnom2: DW-Nominate second dimension score.
dwnom1bse: DW-Nominate first dimension bootstrapped standard error
dwnom2bse: DW-Nominate second dimension bootstrapped standard error
corrbse
LogL: Log-likelihood
nchoice: Number of votes
nerror: Number of errors
gmp

Details

We generated the data by doing the following:

rcx.file <- system.file("HL01111E21_PRES.DAT", package="asmcjr") rcx.fields <- c("cong","id","state","dist","lstate","party","name", "dwnom1","dwnom2","dwnom1bse","dwnom2bse","corrbse","LogL", "nchoice","nerror","gmp") rcx.fieldWidths <- c(4,6,3,2,9,4,12,7,7,7,7,7,12,5,6,6) rcx <- read.fwf(file=rcx.file,widths=rcx.fieldWidths,as.is=TRUE, col.names=rcx.fields)