Election08

<p>State-by-state information from the 2008 U.S. presidential election</p>

datasets

Datasets for the textbook Stat2: Modeling with Regression and ANOVA (second edition).
The package also includes data for the first edition, Stat2: Building Models for a World of Data
and a few functions for plotting diagnostics.

Robin Lock

Stat2Data

Datasets for Stat2

Election08 function

<p>A dataframe with 51 observations on the following 7 variables.</p><table><tr><td>
    <code>State</code> </td>
<td> Name of the state</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Abr</code> </td>
<td> Abbreviation for the state</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Income</code> </td>
<td> Per capita income in the state as of 2007 (in dollars)</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>HS</code> </td>
<td> Percentage of adults with at least a high school education</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>BA</code> </td>
<td> Percentage of adults with at least a college education</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Dem.Rep</code> </td>
<td> Difference in %Democrat and %Republican (according to 2008 Gallup survey)</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>ObamaWin</code> </td>
<td> <code>1</code>= Obama (Democrat) wins state in 2008 or <code>0</code>=McCain (Republican) wins</td>
</tr></table>

`State`	Name of the state
`Abr`	Abbreviation for the state
`Income`	Per capita income in the state as of 2007 (in dollars)
`HS`	Percentage of adults with at least a high school education
`BA`	Percentage of adults with at least a college education
`Dem.Rep`	Difference in %Democrat and %Republican (according to 2008 Gallup survey)
`ObamaWin`	`1`= Obama (Democrat) wins state in 2008 or `0`=McCain (Republican) wins

Election08: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election

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