graph_random_vote: generate random roll-call votes based on ideology space

In schochastics/levelnet: Methods to Analyze One-mode Projections of Two-mode Networks

generate random roll-call votes based on ideology space

Description

generate random roll-call votes based on ideology space

Usage

graph_random_vote(
  M = 101,
  D = 1,
  p = 4,
  pd = 2,
  beta = 1,
  r = 9,
  noprob = 0.05,
  Nrand = 1000,
  N = 525
)

Arguments

M	number of members
D	distance between means
p	dimension of space
pd	dimensioms where distributions are separated
beta	scaling parameter for probabilistic voting
r	radius of hypersphere for random generation
noprob	probabilit of non voting
Nrand	number of randomly generated votes
N	number of votes to sample from randomly generated votes

Value

list with random votes and ideologies

Author(s)

David Schoch

References

Aldrich, John H., and Montgomery, Jacob M., and Sparks, David B. (2014). Polarization and Ideology: Partisan Sources of Low Dimensionality in Scaled Roll Call Analyses. Political Analysis 22:435-456

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