votes

Roll call votes from the U.S. House of Representatives, 2005.

datasets

Algorithms for accelerating the convergence of slow,
        monotone sequences from smooth, contraction mapping such as the
        EM and MM algorithms. It can be used to accelerate any smooth,
        linearly convergent acceleration scheme.  A tutorial style
        introduction to this package is available in a vignette on the
        CRAN download page or, when the package is loaded in an R
        session, with vignette("turboEM").

Ravi Varadhan

turboEM

A Suite of Convergence Acceleration Schemes for EM and MM
        algorithms

votes function

A 401-by-669 matrix whose ($i$,$j$)-entry corresponds to the vote of the $i$th representative on the $j$th roll call. Possible votes are "yea", "nay", or "not voting", which are represented by 1/2, -1/2, and 0, respectively.

format

Diaconis PD, Goel S, and Holmes S (2008). Horseshoes in Multidimensional Scaling and Local Kernel Methods. <em>Annals of Applied Statistics</em>. 2 (3) 777-807. Supplementary material.

votes: Roll Call Votes

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