wnominate (version 1.2)

sen90wnom: 90th U.S. Senate Ideal Points

Description

This dataframe contains the estimated ideal points of the 90th U.S Senate using wnominate. Although it can easily be obtained from calling the example in wnominate, it is included here to facilitate illustration of the examples for the plot and summary functions.

Usage

data(sen90wnom)

Value

An object of class nomObject, which in this documentation is also referred to as a W-NOMINATE object.

Source

Keith Poole. 2005. 90th Senate Roll Call Vote Data. http://www.voteview.com/.

See Also

'wnominate'.

Examples

    #This data file is the same as reading file using:
    #sen90 <- readKH("ftp://voteview.com/sen90kh.ord")
    #All ORD files can be found on www.voteview.com
    data(sen90)
    
    summary(sen90)
    #sen90wnom <- wnominate(sen90,polarity=c(2,5))
    #'sen90wnom' is the same nomObject as found in 
    data(sen90wnom)
    summary(sen90wnom)
    plot(sen90wnom)