sc9497

This data set provides information on the United States Supreme Court
 from 1994-1997. Votes included are non-unanimous.

datasets

Bayesian analysis of item-response theory (IRT) models,
roll call analysis; computing highest density regions; maximum
likelihood estimation of zero-inflated and hurdle models for count
data; goodness-of-fit measures for GLMs; data sets used
in writing	and teaching at the Political Science
Computational Laboratory; seats-votes curves.

Simon Jackman

pscl

Political Science Computational Laboratory

sc9497 function

A list containing the elements:<dl>
 <dt>votes</dt>
<dd>a matrix of the votes, 0=Nay, 1=Yea,
 <code>NA</code>=Abstained or missing data. The matrix columns are labeled with
 <code>vote.names</code> and the rows are labeled with <code>legis.names</code>.</dd> <dt>legis.names</dt>
<dd>a vector of the names of the nine Justices
 sitting on the court at this time.</dd> <dt>party</dt>
<dd>NULL; exists for consistency with House and Senate data sets.</dd> <dt>state</dt>
<dd>NULL; exists for consistency with House and Senate data
 sets.</dd> <dt>district</dt>
<dd>NULL; exists for consistency with House data sets.</dd> <dt>id</dt>
<dd>NULL; exists for consistency with House and Senate data sets.</dd> <dt>vote.names</dt>
<dd>a vector of strings numbering the cases simply to
 distinguish them from one another.</dd> <dt>desc</dt>
<dd>a description of the data set.</dd> 
</dl>

Format

votes from the United States Supreme Court, from 1994-1997 — sc9497

A list containing the elements:<dl>
 <dt>votes</dt>
<dd>a matrix of the votes, 0=Nay, 1=Yea,
 <code>NA</code>=Abstained or missing data. The matrix columns are labeled with
 <code>vote.names</code> and the rows are labeled with <code>legis.names</code>.</dd>

 <dt>legis.names</dt>
<dd>a vector of the names of the nine Justices
 sitting on the court at this time.</dd>

 <dt>party</dt>
<dd>NULL; exists for consistency with House and Senate data sets.</dd>

 <dt>state</dt>
<dd>NULL; exists for consistency with House and Senate data
 sets.</dd>

 <dt>district</dt>
<dd>NULL; exists for consistency with House data sets.</dd>

 <dt>id</dt>
<dd>NULL; exists for consistency with House and Senate data sets.</dd>

 <dt>vote.names</dt>
<dd>a vector of strings numbering the cases simply to
 distinguish them from one another.</dd>

 <dt>desc</dt>
<dd>a description of the data set.</dd>

 
</dl>

sc9497: votes from the United States Supreme Court, from 1994-1997

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