Pollster08

<p>Polls for 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

Pollster08 function

<p>A dataset with 102 observations on the following 11 variables.</p><table><tr><td>
    <code>PollTaker</code> </td>
<td> Polling organization</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>PollDates</code> </td>
<td> Dates the poll data were collected</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>MidDate</code> </td>
<td> Midpoint of the polling period</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Days</code> </td>
<td> Number of days after August 28th (end of Democratic convention)</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>n</code> </td>
<td> Sample size for the poll</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Pop</code> </td>
<td> <code>A</code>=all,  <code>LV</code>=likely voters, <code>RV</code>=registered voters</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>McCain</code> </td>
<td> Percent supporting John McCain</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Obama</code> </td>
<td> Percent supporting Barack Obama</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Margin</code> </td>
<td> Obama percent minus McCain percent</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Charlie</code> </td>
<td> Indicator for polls after Charlie Gibson interview with VP candidate Sarah Palin (9/11)</td>
</tr><tr><td>
    <code>Meltdown</code> </td>
<td> Indicator for polls after Lehman Brothers bankruptcy (9/15)</td>
</tr></table>

`PollTaker`	Polling organization
`PollDates`	Dates the poll data were collected
`MidDate`	Midpoint of the polling period
`Days`	Number of days after August 28th (end of Democratic convention)
`n`	Sample size for the poll
`Pop`	`A`=all, `LV`=likely voters, `RV`=registered voters
`McCain`	Percent supporting John McCain
`Obama`	Percent supporting Barack Obama
`Margin`	Obama percent minus McCain percent
`Charlie`	Indicator for polls after Charlie Gibson interview with VP candidate Sarah Palin (9/11)
`Meltdown`	Indicator for polls after Lehman Brothers bankruptcy (9/15)

Pollster08: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election Polls

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