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Example data from Laver Benoit and Garry (2003)
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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 presumed to be -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.
Laver, Benoit and Garry (2003) 'Estimating policy positions from political text using words as data' American Political Science Review 97(2).
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