house_national_forecast

The raw data behind the story
'Forecasting the race for the House'
<a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/house/">https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/house/</a>

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house_national_forecast function

A dataframe with 588 rows representing district-level results of the
classic, lite, and deluxe house forecasts since 2018/08/01 and 11 variables.<dl class="dl-horizontal">
<dt>forecastdate</dt><dd>date of the forecast</dd>
<dt>party</dt><dd>the party of the forecast</dd>
<dt>model</dt><dd>the model of the forecast</dd>
<dt>win_probability</dt><dd>the probability of the corresponding party winning</dd>
<dt>mean_seats</dt><dd>the mean of the number of seats</dd>
<dt>median_seats</dt><dd>the median number of seats</dd>
<dt>p10_seats</dt><dd>the top 10 percentile of number of seats</dd>
<dt>p90_seats</dt><dd>the top 90 percentile of number of seats</dd>
<dt>margin</dt><dd>unknown</dd>
<dt>p10_margin</dt><dd>the margin of p10_seats</dd>
<dt>p90_margin</dt><dd>the margin of p90_seats</dd>
</dl>

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The raw data behind the story
'Forecasting the race for the House'
<a href='https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/house/'>https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/house/</a>

2018 House Forecast — house_national_forecast

A dataframe with 588 rows representing district-level results of the
classic, lite, and deluxe house forecasts since 2018/08/01 and 11 variables.<dl class='dl-horizontal'>
<dt>forecastdate</dt><dd>date of the forecast</dd>
<dt>party</dt><dd>the party of the forecast</dd>
<dt>model</dt><dd>the model of the forecast</dd>
<dt>win_probability</dt><dd>the probability of the corresponding party winning</dd>
<dt>mean_seats</dt><dd>the mean of the number of seats</dd>
<dt>median_seats</dt><dd>the median number of seats</dd>
<dt>p10_seats</dt><dd>the top 10 percentile of number of seats</dd>
<dt>p90_seats</dt><dd>the top 90 percentile of number of seats</dd>
<dt>margin</dt><dd>unknown</dd>
<dt>p10_margin</dt><dd>the margin of p10_seats</dd>
<dt>p90_margin</dt><dd>the margin of p90_seats</dd>
</dl>

2018 House Forecast

house_national_forecast: 2018 House Forecast

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