boxsteffensmeier

<p>The data cover 397 races for the United States House of Representatives in which an
incumbent ran for reelection in 1990.</p>

datasets

Functions for generating, simulating, and visualizing expected durations and marginal changes in duration from the Cox proportional hazards model as described in Kropko and Harden (2017) <doi:10.1017/S000712341700045X> and Harden and Kropko (2018) <doi:10.1017/psrm.2018.19>.

Kropko, Jonathan

coxed

Duration-Based Quantities of Interest for the Cox Proportional
Hazards Model

Harden, Jeffrey J.

boxsteffensmeier function

<p>A data frame with 1376 observations and 8 variables:</p><table><tr><td>
<code>caseid</code> </td>
<td> ID number </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>start</code> </td>
<td>  Beginning of the measured time interval, in weeks</td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>te</code> </td>
<td> Time to challenger entry (end of the time interval), in weeks </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>ec</code> </td>
<td> The amount of money (in millions of USD) the incumbent has in reserve </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>dem</code> </td>
<td> 1 if the incumbent is a Democrat, 0 if the incumbent is a Republican </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>south</code> </td>
<td> 1 if the district is in the south, 0 else </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>iv</code> </td>
<td> Prior vote percent </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>cut_hi</code> </td>
<td> Indicates whether or not a high quality challenger enters the race (censoring variable)</td>
</tr></table>

boxsteffensmeier: Data from "A Dynamic Analysis of The Role of War Chests in Campaign Strategy" by Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier

Description

Usage

Arguments

Format

`caseid`	ID number
`start`	Beginning of the measured time interval, in weeks
`te`	Time to challenger entry (end of the time interval), in weeks
`ec`	The amount of money (in millions of USD) the incumbent has in reserve
`dem`	1 if the incumbent is a Democrat, 0 if the incumbent is a Republican
`south`	1 if the district is in the south, 0 else
`iv`	Prior vote percent
`cut_hi`	Indicates whether or not a high quality challenger enters the race (censoring variable)