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SciencesPo (version 1.3.5)

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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Version

1.3.5

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Daniel Marcelino

Last Published

July 15th, 2015

Functions in SciencesPo (1.3.5)

Galton's Family Data on Human Stature.

destring

Factors to numeric

SciencesPo

A Tool Set For Analyzing Political Behavior Data

Fractional part of a numeric vector.

normalpdf

Normal probability density function

formatPercent

Converts to percentiles

cgreene76

Christensen's and Greene's (1976) Data

turnout

Turnout Data

flag

Flag duplicated observations

shift

Shifts elements of a vector left or right by N positions (Lag or Lead).

binompdf

Binomial probability density function

between

Classify values into groups

matching

Matching

invnormal

Inverse Cumulative Standard Normal Distribution

legendPlotMinimalist

Add legends to a plot

geary.test

Geary's test for normality

%nin%

Find Matching (or Non-Matching) Elements

fillup

Identify columns with at least one NA value and fill with the mean value

binomcdf

Binomial cumulative distribution function

jackknife

Resamples Data Using the Jackknife Method

ggMultiplot

Multiple ggplot objects

ddirichlet

Dirichlet distribution

Method for the number of observations

fill.forward

fill NA by previous cell value (fill forward)

categories

Extraction of categorical values as a preprocessing step for making dummy variables

mishkin92

Mishkin's (1992) Data

psum

Parallel sum

normalize

Unity-based normalization

bootstrap

Method for Bootstrap

modify

Modify data elements by their position

stukel

Stukel's test of the logistic link

mode

Calculate the Mode

roman.numeral

Converts integer into its Roman Numeral equivalent

Pearson's Coefficient of Variation

normalcdf

Normal Cumulative Distribution

kurtosis

Compute the Kurtosis

ssex

Same Sex Marriage Public Opinion Data

dummy

Generate dummy variables

Find Location of the Nearest Value

winsorize

Winsorized Mean

jensen.shannon

Jensen-Shannon Distance

draw.norm

Shades Normal Distribuion

nPermutate

Calculate number of permutations taking repeated elements into consideration

Create Block-randomized designs

detach.all

Detach all data frame from the search path

peek

Show Observations Randomly Drawn from the Data

freq

Frequency table

varOrder

Move variable order in a data.frame

Reverse the levels of a factor.

Calculates the Standard Error

error.bar

Add Error Bars on the Graph

Johnson-Neyman Regression

ltaylor96

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

tobaccovote

Tobacco Lobbying Data

crosstable

Cross-tabulation

joinLists

Join a list of data frames

view

View random n elements of an object.

vif

Variance Inflation Factor

us2012

US Presidential Election Opinion Polls

nearest

Find the Nearest Value

permutate

Create k random permutations of a vector

rdirichlet

Dirichlet distribution

trim

Trim white spaces

read.zTree

Reads zTree output files

swatson93

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

rectangularize

Make a data.frame Rectangular by fill in missing records

use

Attach exclusively various file formats

Political Diversity Indices politicalDiversity is used to analyze political diversity in a unity or across them. It provides methods to estimate the Effective Number of Parties as well as other diversity measures.

rand.imput

Random Imputation

watch

Watch For Changes in a Data Object

Converts rle object to data.frame

svTransform

Transform dependent variable

as.data.frame.by

Convert the results of by() to a data.frame.

bhodrick93

Bekaert's and Hodrick's (1993) Data

detail

Method to Produce Descriptive Statistics Summary

compute

Aggregate a numeric variable

fillin

Filling in missing values fillin replaces missing values with existing observations from other variable or data frame.

formatNumbers

Format numeric digits

factorize

Conditionally convert vectors to factors

nerlove63

Marc Nerlove's (1963) data

pause

Pause

posixify

Converts calendar date string to POSIX

Replace commas by dots

griliches76

Griliches's (1976) Data

ggFootnote

Add Footnote to a ggplot Object

true.median

Calculates the true median

Generate Markov Chains

regionSignificance

Computes the region significance