ideologicalOverlap: Compute ideological overlap.

Description Usage Arguments Value

View source: R/ideologicalOverlap.R

Description

Compute ideological overlap.

Usage

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ideologicalOverlap(congress = 100, chamber = "house", state = NULL,
  data.version = "common", mcdonald = TRUE, stump = TRUE,
  wt2D = FALSE, overlap.trim = 0)

Arguments

congress

Numeric. Session number.

chamber

Character.

state

Character. Two character state postal abbreviation (e.g., "CA") or "US" (President). Lower case OK (e.g, "ca").

data.version

Character. DW-NOMINATE flavor: "common", "common.weekly" or "dw".

mcdonald

Logical. Include Larry McDonald (GA-D).

stump

Logical. Include Bob Stump (AZ-D).

wt2D

Logical. Weight second dimension. Default is FALSE.

overlap.trim

Numeric. Sets the smaller quantile to trim the range of scores. Must be on [0, 0.5). "0" uses minimum Republican score and maximum Democrat score.

Value

An R dataframe


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