| ex0126 {Sleuth3} | R Documentation |
Environmental Voting of Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives
Description
The data are the number of pro- and anti-environmental votes, according to the League of Conservation Voters, for each member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2005, 2006, or 2007.
Usage
ex0126Format
A data frame with 492 observations on the following 10 variables.
- State
the state that the member represented
- Representative
name of the representative
- Party
a factor representing political party, with levels
"R"for Republican,"D"for Democratic, and"I"for Independent- Pro05
the number of pro-environmental votes in 2005
- Anti05
the number of anti-environmental votes in 2005
- Pro06
the number of pro-environmental votes in 2006
- Anti06
the number of anti-environmental votes in 2006
- Pro07
the number of pro-environmental votes in 2007
- Anti07
the number of anti-environmental votes in 2007
- PctPro
the total percentage of a representative's votes between 2005 and 2007 that were deemd to be pro-environmental
Source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.
See Also
Examples
str(ex0126)