japan

<p>This dataset gives voters' preferences of political parties in Japan on the
0 (least preferred) - 100 (most preferred) scale.  It is based on the 1995
survey data of 418 individual voters.  The data also include the sex,
education level, and age of the voters. The survey allowed voters to choose
among four parties: Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), New Frontier Party
(NFP), Sakigake (SKG), and Japanese Communist Party (JCP).</p>

datasets

Fits the Bayesian multinomial probit model via Markov chain
Monte Carlo.  The multinomial probit model is often used to analyze
the discrete choices made by individuals recorded in survey data.
Examples where the multinomial probit model may be useful include the
analysis of product choice by consumers in market research and the
analysis of candidate or party choice by voters in electoral studies.
The MNP package can also fit the model with different choice sets for
each individual, and complete or partial individual choice orderings
of the available alternatives from the choice set. The estimation is
based on the efficient marginal data augmentation algorithm that is
developed by Imai and van Dyk (2005). "A Bayesian Analysis of the
Multinomial Probit Model Using the Data Augmentation." Journal of
Econometrics, Vol. 124, No. 2 (February), pp. 311-334.
<doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2004.02.002>  Detailed examples are given in
Imai and van Dyk (2005). "MNP: R Package for Fitting the Multinomial
Probit Model."  Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 14, No. 3 (May),
pp. 1-32. <doi:10.18637/jss.v014.i03>.

Kosuke Imai

Fitting the Multinomial Probit Model

David van Dyk

Hubert Jin

japan function

<p>A data frame containing the following 7 variables for 418
observations.</p>
<table class="table">
<tr><td>LDP</td><td>numeric</td><td>preference for Liberal Democratic
Party</td><td>0 - 100</td></tr>
<tr><td>NFP</td><td>numeric</td><td>preference for New Frontier
Party</td><td>0 - 100</td></tr>
<tr><td>SKG</td><td>numeric</td><td>preference for Sakigake</td><td>0
- 100</td></tr>
<tr><td>JCP</td><td>numeric</td><td>preference for Japanese Communist Party</td><td>0 - 100</td></tr>
<tr><td>gender</td><td>factor</td><td>gender of each voter</td><td><code>male</code> or
<code>female</code></td></tr>
<tr><td>education</td><td>numeric</td><td>levels of education for each
voter</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>age</td><td>numeric</td><td>age of each voter</td><td></td></tr>
</table><p></p><p></p>

Format

Voters' Preferences of Political Parties in Japan (1995) — japan

<p>A data frame containing the following 7 variables for 418
observations.</p>
<table class='table'>
<tr><td>LDP</td><td>numeric</td><td>preference for Liberal Democratic
Party</td><td>0 - 100</td></tr>
<tr><td>NFP</td><td>numeric</td><td>preference for New Frontier
Party</td><td>0 - 100</td></tr>
<tr><td>SKG</td><td>numeric</td><td>preference for Sakigake</td><td>0
- 100</td></tr>
<tr><td>JCP</td><td>numeric</td><td>preference for Japanese Communist Party</td><td>0 - 100</td></tr>
<tr><td>gender</td><td>factor</td><td>gender of each voter</td><td><code>male</code> or
<code>female</code></td></tr>
<tr><td>education</td><td>numeric</td><td>levels of education for each
voter</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>age</td><td>numeric</td><td>age of each voter</td><td></td></tr>
</table>



japan: Voters' Preferences of Political Parties in Japan (1995)

Description

Arguments

Format

LDP	numeric	preference for Liberal Democratic Party	0 - 100
NFP	numeric	preference for New Frontier Party	0 - 100
SKG	numeric	preference for Sakigake	0 - 100
JCP	numeric	preference for Japanese Communist Party	0 - 100
gender	factor	gender of each voter	`male` or `female`
education	numeric	levels of education for each voter
age	numeric	age of each voter