senate_national_forecast

This file contains links to the data behind FiveThirtyEight's 'Senate forecasts'
<a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/senate/">https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/senate/</a>

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senate_national_forecast function

A dataframe with 450 rows representing national-level results of the classic, lite, and deluxe Senate forecasts since Aug. 1, 2018 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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This file contains links to the data behind FiveThirtyEight's 'Senate forecasts'
<a href='https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/senate/'>https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/senate/</a>

Senate Forecast 2018 — senate_national_forecast

A dataframe with 450 rows representing national-level results of the classic, lite, and deluxe Senate forecasts since Aug. 1, 2018 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>

Senate Forecast 2018

senate_national_forecast: Senate Forecast 2018

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