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SciencesPo (version 1.3.9)

A Tool Set for Analyzing Political Behavior Data

Description

Provides functions for analyzing political behavior data, including measures of political fragmentation, seat apportionment, and graphical demonstrations.

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install.packages('SciencesPo')

Monthly Downloads

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Version

1.3.9

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Daniel Marcelino

Last Published

January 23rd, 2016

Functions in SciencesPo (1.3.9)

The Measure of US Presidents

Cronbach's Alpha for a matrix or data frame

Frequency Table

Calculate the Mode

Pearson's Contingency Coefficient for Tables

circularSampling

Circular Systematic Sampling

Method for Bootstrapping

Generate dummy variables

Cox-Shugart Measure of Proportionality

Cross-tabulation

highestAverages

Highest Averages Methods of Allocating Seats Proportionally

Extraction of categorical values as a preprocessing step for making dummy variables

Bekaert's and Hodrick's (1993) Data

Galton's Family Data on Human Stature.

Atkinson Index of Inequality

Approval Ratings for President George W. Bush

A Tool Set For Analyzing Political Behavior Data

Statistical description

largestRemainders

Largest Remainders Methods of Allocating Seats Proportionally

circularReplicatedSampling

Replicated Circular-Systematic Sampling

The Butterfly Curve

Marc Nerlove's (1963) data

Plot a barplot with ggplot2

Corrected Sum of Squares

Extended fivethirtyeight.com color palette

Gallagher Index

Christensen's and Greene's (1976) Data

Create k random permutations of a vector

Simulates a Levy Walk

Binomial cumulative distribution function

The Lorenz Curve

Lothian's and Taylor's (1996) Data Set

Round Numbers Without Leading Zeros

Clear Memory of All Objects

Unity-based normalization

Method to Produce Descriptive Statistics Summary

Herfindahl Index of Concentration

The Missing R Parallel Sum

Normal Cumulative Distribution

Stratified Sampling

Dirichlet distribution

Palette data for the themes used by package

Trim white spaces

Detect Outliers

Binomial probability density function

Factors to numeric

An S4 Class to Average Absolute Deviation

scale_colour_fte

fivethirtyeight.com color scales

scale_colour_pub

Publication color scales.

Measurement System Units

Add Footnote to a ggplot Object

Replace commas by dots

Wrapper for dbConnect

The Hamilton Method of Allocating Seats Proportionally

Shades Normal Distribuion

Transform dependent variable

The Uncertainty Coefficient

The D'Hondt Method of Allocating Seats Proportionally

Find WWW Domains

plotTitleSubtitle

Add Title and Subtitle to a ggplot Object

Add transparency

Creates a temporary table in the database

Inverse Cumulative Standard Normal Distribution

Normal probability density function

Simple Frequency Table

parties_color_pal

Color Palettes for Political Organizations (discrete)

Color Palettes for Publication (discrete)

Bartels Rank Test of Randomness

Stukel's test of the logistic link

Griliches's (1976) Data

Lilliefors (Kolmogorov-Smirnov) test for normality

Jensen-Shannon Distance

D'Agostino test of skewness

Anscombe-Glynn test of kurtosis

Geary's test for normality

Johnson-Neyman Regression

The Phi Coefficient for 2 x 2 Tables

anderson.darling

Anderson-Darling test for normality

Tschuprow's T for Tables

Likelihood Ratio Test (G test) for Tables

Bonett-Seier test of Geary's kurtosis

Cramer's V Coefficient for Tables

James-Stein shrunken estimates

Simple Sample Size for Surveys

Table With Summary Statistics

Average Absolute Deviation

replicatedSampling

Replicated Simple Random Sample (SRS)

Calculate and plot power of a sample

Burt's twin data

inv.cox.shugart

Inverse Cox-Shugart Measure of Proportionality

Weighted Gini Index

Gini-Simpson Index

Calculates the Standard Error of the Mean

Estimates Mean and Standard Deviation from the Median and the Range

Lijphart Index of Proportionality

Calculate breaks

Uncorrected Sum of Squares

Winsorized Mean

Themes for ggplot2 Graphs

Linear model to equation style

politicalDiversity

Political Diversity Indices

Add new row to dataframe

Resamples Data Using the Jackknife Method

linearReplicatedSampling

Replicated-Systematic Random Sampling

Recode or Replace Values With New Values

Same Sex Marriage Public Opinion Data

Voronoi diagram

Make the ggplot2 version of TS plots

Mishkin's (1992) Data

Standard Error of Kurtosis

Simple Random Imputation

Compute the Kurtosis

Weighted Variance

Variance Inflation Factor

Examples from the SciencesPo Package

Returns significance level.

Word frequencies from Mosteller and Wallace

scale_colour_parties

Political Parties Color Scales

Create a Completely Empty Theme

The Penn World Table

The Default Theme

blockRandomizedDesign

Create Block-randomized designs

An S4 Class to Confidence Intervals

Pearson's Coefficient of Variation

Add an "id" Variable to a Dataset

Dirichlet distribution

Jarque-Bera test for normality

Linear Systematic Sampling

Creates a pie chart using ggplot2.

Convert All Factor Columns to Character Columns

Compute the Skewness

Insert line breaks in long strings

Reads zTree output files

Stock's and Watson's (1993) Data.

Rosenbluth Index of Concentration

Standard Error of Skewness