cluster.datasets (version 1.0-1)

us.congressional.bills: Hartigan (1975) Congressman b y Bills

Description

The table contains the behavior of various bill sponsors in the 90th Congress. This is Table 13.7 in Chapter 13 of Hartigan (1975) on page 242.

Usage

data(us.congressional.bills)

Format

A data frame with 17 observations on the following 16 variables.

sponsor

a character vector for the congressman sponsor

b.1

a factor for the congressman behavior for bill 1 with levels 1 5 7 8

b.2

a factor for the congressman behavior for bill 2 with levels 1 5 6 7

b.3

a factor for the congressman behavior for bill 3 with levels 1 5 6 7

b.4

a factor for the congressman behavior for bill4 with levels 1 7

b.5

a factor for the congressman behavior for bill 5 with levels 1 6 7

b.6

a factor for the congressman behavior for bill 6 with levels 1 6 7

b.7

a factor for the congressman behavior for bill 7 with levels 1 6 7

b.8

a factor for the congressman behavior for bill 8 with levels 1 6 7

b.9

a factor for the congressman behavior for bill 9 with levels 1 6 9

b.10

a factor for the congressman behavior for bill 10 with levels 1 6 9

b.11

a factor for the congressman behavior for bill 11 with levels 1 6 9

b.12

a factor for the congressman behavior for bill 12 with levels 1 6 9

b.13

a factor for the congressman behavior for bill 13 with levels 1 6 9

b.14

a factor for the congressman behavior for bill 14 with levels 1 6 9

b.15

a factor for the congressman behavior for bill 15 with levels 1 6 9

Source

Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York. SPAETH2 Cluster Analysis Datasets http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/datasets/spaeth2/spaeth2.html

Details

The bills, sponsoring congressmen and bill titles are as follows.

b.1	Aspinall
Authorize Biscayne National Monument in Florida	b.2
Perkins	Promote health and safety in building trades
b.3	Patman
Sr extend 2 years auth. reg. interest and dividend rates	b.4
Dingell	Rel Dev fish protein concentrate
b.5	Perkins
Establish commission on Negro history and culture	b.6
Aspinall	Designate parts of Morris City, NJ, as wilderness
b.7	Udall
Provide overtime and standby pay for transportation department	b.8
Edwards	Amend bill for relief of sundry claimants
b.9	Gross
Amend omnibus claims bill	b.10
Gross	Strike title 8 of omnibus claims bill
b.11	Hall
Strike title 9 of omnibus claims bill	b.12
Gross	Strike title 10 of omnibus claims bill
b.13	Hall
Strike title 11 of omnibus claims bill	b.14
Talcott	Strike title 14 of omnibus claims bill

The behavior is represented by a factor with the following values

1
yes
2
pair yes
3
announced yes
4
announced no
5
pair no
6
no
7
general pair
8
abstain
9
absent
0
sponsor absent

References

Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York.

Examples

data(us.congressional.bills)