SupremeCourt

This dataframe contains a matrix votes cast by U.S. Supreme
Court justices in all cases in the 2000 term.

datasets

This package contains functions for posterior
  simulation for a number of statistical models. All simulation
  is done in compiled C++ written in the Scythe Statistical
  Library Version 0.3. All models return coda mcmc objects that
  can then be summarized using coda functions or the coda menu
  interface.  The package also contains some useful utility
  functions, including some additional PDFs and pseudo-random
  number generators for statistical distributions.

Andrew Martin

MCMCpack

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Package

SupremeCourt function

The dataframe has contains data for justices Rehnquist, Stevens,
O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, and Breyer
for the 2000 term of the U.S. Supreme Court.  It contains data
from 43 cases. The votes are coded liberal (1) and conservative
(0) using the protocal of Spaeth (2003).   The unit of analysis
is the case citation (ANALU=0).  We are concerned with formally
decided cases issued with written opinions, after full oral
argument and cases decided by an equally divided vote
(DECTYPE=1,5,6,7).

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Harold J. Spaeth. 2003. <em>Original United States Supreme Court Database: 
1953-2001 Terms.</em>  <url>http://polisci.msu.edu/pljp/</url>.

SupremeCourt: U.S. Supreme Court Vote Matrix

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