basicspace (version 0.25)

summary.aldmck: Aldrich-McKelvey Summary

Description

summary.aldmck reads an aldmck object and prints a summary.

Usage

# S3 method for aldmck
summary(object, ...)

Value

A summary of an aldmck object. Reports number of stimuli, respondents scaled, number of respondents with positive and negative weights, R-squared, Reudction of normalized variance of perceptions, and stimuli locations.

Arguments

object

an aldmck output object.

...

further arguments to print.

Author

Keith Poole

Howard Rosenthal

Jeffrey Lewis

James Lo

Royce Carroll

Christopher Hare

References

John H. Aldrich and Richard D. McKelvey. 1977. ``A Method of Scaling with Applications to the 1968 and 1972 Presidential Elections.'' American Political Science Review 71(1): 111-130. doi: 10.2307/1956957

David A. Armstrong II, Ryan Bakker, Royce Carroll, Christopher Hare, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal. 2021. Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment. 2nd ed. Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Series. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC. doi: 10.1201/9781315197609

Thomas R. Palfrey and Keith T. Poole. 1987. ``The Relationship between Information, Ideology, and Voting Behavior.'' American Journal of Political Science 31(3): 511-530. doi: 10.2307/2111281

Keith T. Poole, Jeffrey B. Lewis, Howard Rosenthal, James Lo, and Royce Carroll. 2016. ``Recovering a Basic Space from Issue Scales in R.'' Journal of Statistical Software 69(7): 1-21. doi:10.18637/jss.v069.i07

Keith T. Poole. 1998. ``Recovering a Basic Space From a Set of Issue Scales.'' American Journal of Political Science 42(3): 954-993. doi: 10.2307/2991737

See Also

'aldmck', 'LC1980', 'plot.aldmck', 'plot.cdf'.

Examples

	### Loads the Liberal-Conservative scales from the 1980 ANES.
	data(LC1980)
	
	result <- aldmck(data=LC1980, polarity=2, respondent=1, missing=c(0,8,9), verbose=TRUE)
	
	summary(result)
	plot.aldmck(result)