names.all


A dataset containing Census Surname List, which is augmented with Census Spanish Surname List. Variables are as follows:
  <ul>
<li> surname
  </li>
<li> p_whi (i.e., Pr(White | Surname)
  </li>
<li> p_bla (i.e., Pr(Black | Surname)
  </li>
<li> p_his (i.e., Pr(Hispanic/Latino | Surname)
  </li>
<li> p_asi (i.e., Pr(Asian | Surname)
  </li>
<li> p_oth (i.e., Pr(Other | Surname)
  </li>
</ul><p></p><p>For any surnames appearing only on Spanish Surname List, Pr(Hispanic/Latino | Surname) = 1, and remaining probabilities are set to zero.
</p>

This open-source software package enables researchers to predict
individual ethnicity using his/her surname, geolocation, and other attributes
such as gender and age. The method utilizes the Bayes' rule to compute the
posterior probability of each racial category for any given individual voter.
The package implements methods described in Imai and Khanna (2016) <DOI:10.1093/pan/mpw001>.

Kabir Khanna

Who Are You? Bayesian Prediction of Racial Category Using
Surname and Geolocation

names.all function

A data frame with 157,728 rows and 6 variables.

names.all: Dataset containing Census Surname List and Spanish Surname Lists.

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