logisticPCA (version 0.2)

house_votes84: United States Congressional Voting Records 1984

Description

This data set includes votes for each of the U.S. House of Representatives Congressmen on the 16 key votes identified by the CQA. The CQA lists nine different types of votes: voted for, paired for, and announced for (these three simplified to yea), voted against, paired against, and announced against (these three simplified to nay), voted present, voted present to avoid conflict of interest, and did not vote or otherwise make a position known (these three simplified to an unknown disposition).

Usage

house_votes84

Format

A matrix with all binary or missing entries. There are 435 rows corresponding members of congress and 16 columns representing the bills being voted on. The row names refer to the political party of the members of congress

Source

Congressional Quarterly Almanac, 98th Congress, 2nd session 1984, Volume XL: Congressional Quarterly Inc., Washington, D.C., 1985 Data converted to a matrix from: Lichman, M. (2013). UCI Machine Learning Repository [http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml]. Irvine, CA: University of California, School of Information and Computer Science.

Examples

data(house_votes84)
congress_lpca = logisticPCA(house_votes84, k = 2, m = 4)