Scaling Roll Call Votes with wnominate in R

This paper presents a software package designed to estimate Poole and Rosenthal W-NOMINATE scores in R. The package uses a logistic regression model to analyze political choice data, usually (though not exclusively) from a legislative setting. In contrast to other scaling methods, W-NOMINATE explici...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Keith Poole, Jeffrey B. Lewis, James Lo, Royce Carroll
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2011-08-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
Subjects:
R
Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/v42/i14/paper