housep88

<p>This data set contains, on a House district level, the percentage of the
vote for the Democratic House candidate, the percentage of the vote for the
Democratic presidential candidate (Dukakis), the number of voters who voted
for a major party candidate in the presidential race, and the ratio of
voters in the House race versus the number who cast a ballot for President.
Eleven (11) uncontested races are not included.  Dataset compiled and
analyzed by Burden and Kimball (1988). Complete dataset and documentation
available at ICSPR study number 1140.</p>

datasets

Implements the Bayesian and likelihood methods proposed
in Imai, Lu, and Strauss (2008 <DOI: 10.1093/pan/mpm017>) and
(2011 <DOI:10.18637/jss.v042.i05>) for ecological inference in 2
by 2 tables as well as the method of bounds introduced by Duncan and
Davis (1953).  The package fits both parametric and nonparametric
models using either the Expectation-Maximization algorithms (for
likelihood models) or the Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms (for
Bayesian models).  For all models, the individual-level data can be
directly incorporated into the estimation whenever such data are available.
Along with in-sample and out-of-sample predictions, the package also
provides a functionality which allows one to quantify the effect of data
aggregation on parameter estimation and hypothesis testing under the
parametric likelihood models.

Ying Lu

Ecological Inference in 2x2 Tables

Kosuke Imai

Aaron Strauss

Hubert Jin

housep88 function

<p>A data frame containing 5 variables and 424 observations</p><table class="table">
<tr><td>X</td><td>numeric</td><td>proportion voting for the Democrat in the
presidential race</td></tr>
<tr><td>Y</td><td>numeric</td><td>proportion voting for the Democrat
in the House race</td></tr>
<tr><td>N</td><td>numeric</td><td>number of major party voters in
the presidential contest</td></tr>
<tr><td>HPCT</td><td>numeric</td><td>House election turnout
divided by presidential election turnout (set to 1 if House turnout exceeds
presidential turnout)</td></tr>
<tr><td>DIST</td><td>numeric</td><td>4-digit ICPSR state and
district code: first 2 digits for the state code, last two digits for the
district number (e.g., 2106=IL 6th)</td></tr>
</table><p></p><p></p>

Format

Electoral Results for the House and Presidential Races in 1988 — housep88

<p>A data frame containing 5 variables and 424 observations</p><table class='table'>
<tr><td>X</td><td>numeric</td><td>proportion voting for the Democrat in the
presidential race</td></tr>
<tr><td>Y</td><td>numeric</td><td>proportion voting for the Democrat
in the House race</td></tr>
<tr><td>N</td><td>numeric</td><td>number of major party voters in
the presidential contest</td></tr>
<tr><td>HPCT</td><td>numeric</td><td>House election turnout
divided by presidential election turnout (set to 1 if House turnout exceeds
presidential turnout)</td></tr>
<tr><td>DIST</td><td>numeric</td><td>4-digit ICPSR state and
district code: first 2 digits for the state code, last two digits for the
district number (e.g., 2106=IL 6th)</td></tr>
</table>



housep88: Electoral Results for the House and Presidential Races in 1988

Description

Arguments

Format

References

X	numeric	proportion voting for the Democrat in the presidential race
Y	numeric	proportion voting for the Democrat in the House race
N	numeric	number of major party voters in the presidential contest
HPCT	numeric	House election turnout divided by presidential election turnout (set to 1 if House turnout exceeds presidential turnout)
DIST	numeric	4-digit ICPSR state and district code: first 2 digits for the state code, last two digits for the district number (e.g., 2106=IL 6th)