vcd (version 0.1-3.5)

Federalist: `May' in Federalist Papers

Description

Data from Mosteller & Wallace (1984) investigating the use of certain keywords (`may' in this data set) to identify the author of 12 disputed `Federalist Papers' by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison.

Usage

data(Federalist)

format

A 1-way table giving the number of occurrences of `may' in 262 blocks of text. The variable and its levels are rll{ No Name Levels 1 nMay 0, 1, ..., 6 }

source

Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, p. 19.

References

F. Mosteller & D. L. Wallace (1984), Applied Bayesian and Classical Inference: The Case of the Federalist Papers. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

Examples

data(Federalist)
gf <- goodfit(Federalist, type = "nbinomial")
summary(gf)
plot(gf)