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SciencesPo (version 1.02.12)

A Tool Set for Analyzing Political Behavior Data

Description

A data analysis tool for the political science crowd for ease analyzing random and nonrandom data.

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install.packages('SciencesPo')

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1.02.12

License

LGPL (>= 2.0, < 3)

Maintainer

Daniel Marcelino

Last Published

February 14th, 2015

Functions in SciencesPo (1.02.12)

geary.test

Geary's test for normality
around

Find the Values Around a Particular Value
SciencesPo

A Tool Set For Analyzing Political Behavior Data
ltaylor96

Lothian's and Taylor's (1996) Data Set
bhodrick93

Bekaert's and Hodrick's (1993) Data
as.timedf

A data.frame with time series parameters
lrtest

Likelihood Ratio Test (LRT)
mi

Identify Columns with at least one NA value
colNames

Column names as (always) a character vector
multiPlot

Multiple ggplot objects
addErrorBar

Add Error Bars on the Graph
print.lrtest

Method for printing lrtest
followup

Mark Followup Interviews by id and time
lookup

Lookup
fade

Add transparency
ageGroups

Return a factor variable of age groups
NAto0

Changes NAs in a vector into a given value
center

Center Predictor Variables.
addFootnote

Add Footnote to a ggplot Object
perspBox

Create an Empty Persp Plot
se

Calculate the Standard Error
cross

Factor cross products
keep

Subset data
sampleCovariance

Calculate the Sample Covariance
adj.residuals

Adjusted Residuals
fillNAByPreviousData

Fill NA by Previous Value
elapsed

Return Elapsed Time in Years
fillin

Make a data.frame Rectangular by filling missing records
safeRequire

Safe require
maxGaussian

Maximize Gaussian
factorize

Conditionally convert vectors to factors
mishkin92

Mishkin's (1992) Data
jackknife

Resamples Data Using the Jackknife Method
outliers

Detect Outliers
reverseLevels

Reverse the levels of a factor.
pause

Pause
ssex

Same Sex Marriage Public Opinion Data
plotMC

Plot Markov Chains
use

Attach exclusively various file formats
normalcdf

Normal Cumulative Distribution
quotize

Places quotation marks
us2012

US Presidential Election Opinion Polls
eliminateNA

Eliminate NA observations
ENPs

Computes the Effective Number of Parties
exportData

Writes a delimited text file
kalmanPredict

Kalman Filter Predict
recode

Recode variable
modify

Modify data elements by their position
cumlogit

Cumulative Logit
nearest.loc

Find Location of the Nearest Value
griliches76

Griliches's (1976) Data
trim

Trim white spaces
linearAlgebra

Functions for teaching linear algebra.
kalmanUpdate

Kalman Filter Update
kurtosis

Compute the Kurtosis
labelvar

Labels variables
detachAll

Detach All Data From the Memory
wrap

Wrap all related variables
joinLists

Join a list of data frames
rename

Rename a variable
rowSample

Row Sample
categories

Extraction of Categorical Values as a Preprocessing Step for Making Dummy Variables
rand.block

Create Block-randomized Designs
destring

Convert Factors into Numeric Vectors
formatPercent

Format a numeric proportion
psum

Parallel sum
matching

Matching
tableau

Proportion Table for Univariate Analysis
rleFrame

Converts rle object to data.frame
cgreene76

Christensen's and Greene's (1976) Data
nearest

Find the Nearest Value
galton

Galton's Family Data on Human Stature.
binompdf

Binomial probability density function
nameSplit

Splits name field variable
tobaccovote

Tobacco Lobbying Data
mode

Calculate the Mode
binomcdf

Binomial cumulative distribution function
svTransform

Transform dependent variable
unscale

Unscale Data
isid

Finds ID combination
margins

Puts Arbitrary Margins on Two-way Tables or Arrays
nerlove63

Marc Nerlove's (1963) data
otherNames

Extracts names from a dataset other than the ones indicates
rDirichlet

Samples from Dirichlet distribution
normalpdf

Normal probability density function
slice

Slice a vector
percentile

Converts into percentile
swatson93

Stock's and Watson's (1993) Data.
userPrompt

Prompt for User Action
electoralTool

A Toolkit to analyze electoral data electoralTool can be used to analyze both aggregate data and individual voting data.
replaceCommas

Replace commas by dots
rstack

Stacked Table With Correlations
trueMedian

Calculates the true median
variation

Pearson's Coefficient of Variation
sheston91

The Penn World Table
mc

Generate Markov Chains
stukel

Stukel's test of the logistic link
titanic

Titanic
tsCollapse

Aggregated Data by Time Parameters
winsorize

Winsorized Mean
unnest

Unnest a Nested List
skewness

Compute the Skewness
dummy

Generate dummy variables
watch

Watch For Changes in a Data Object
fillNA

Filling in missing values fillNA uses values of a variable from one data set to fill in missing values in another.
weighted.var

Weighted Variance
vif

Variance Inflation Factor
rownames2col

Rownames to column
scale

Scalling Method
zscore

Compute z-scores
shift

Lag or Lead Observations
normalize

Unity-based normalization
orrr

Odds Ratio and Relative Risk for 2 x 2 Contingency Tables
peek

Show Observations Randomly Drawn from the Data
info

Get Information on Data Objects
read.zTree

Reads zTree output files
perc.table

Express table entries as percentage of marginal table.
paired

Paired Data
rprob

Pairwise Correlations With Probabilities
testAssociation

Association tests for contingency tables
anonymize

Make Data Anonymous
bootstrap

Method for Bootstrap
detail

Method to Produce Descriptive Statistics Summary
loglik

Calculate the Log Likelihood of a Normal Distribution
weather

NY Weather 1995-2014
rand.imput

Random Imputation
invNormal

Inverse Cumulative Standard Normal Distribution