Presidents

The US presidents and their main opponents' heights (cm). This dataset contains the following columns:<p></p><p><ul><li>election The election year.</li><li>winner The winner candidate.</li><li>winner.height The winner candidate's height in centimeters (cm).</li><li>winner.vote The popular vote support for the winner.</li><li>winner.party The winner's party.</li><li>opponent The main opponent candidate.</li><li>opponent.height The opponent candidate's height in centimeters (cm).</li><li>opponent.vote Popular vote support for the main opponent candidate.</li><li>opponent.party The opponent's party.</li><li>turnout The electorate turnout in percentages.</li><li>winner.bmi The winner Body Mass Index (BMI) estimate<code>(BMI = weight in kg/(height in meter)**2)</code></li></ul></p>

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

Daniel Marcelino

SciencesPo

A Tool Set for Analyzing Political Behavior Data

Presidents function

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A <code>data.frame</code> object with <sexpr>ncol(SciencesPo::Presidents)</sexpr> variables and <sexpr>nrow(SciencesPo::Presidents)</sexpr> observations.

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US Presidents: <url>http://www.jimwegryn.com/Names/Presidents.php</url>
Inside Gov. <url>http://www.us-presidents.insidegov.com</url>.
Wikipedia: <url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012</url>.
Wikipedia:<url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heights_of_presidents_and_presidential_candidates_of_the_United_States</url>.

Presidents: The Measure of US Presidents

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