ct.president.vote.1920.1964 {cluster.datasets}

Hartigan (1975) Connecticut Votes for President

Description

The table contains presidential votes recorded over 12 elections and for 8 counties in Connecticut. This is Table 14.13 in Chapter 14 of Hartigan (1975) on page 267.

Usage

data(ct.president.vote.1920.1964)

Format

A data frame with 36 observations on the following 10 variables.

year

a numeric vector for the election year

party

a character vector for the political party

fairfield

a numeric vector for Fiarfield county

hartford

a numeric vector for Hartford county

litchfield

a numeric vector for Litchfield county

middlesex

a numeric vector for Middlesex county

new.haven

a numeric vector for New Haven county

new.london

a numeric vector for New London county

tolland

a numeric vector for Tolland county

windham

a numeric vector for Windham county

Details

Hartigan recommend the use of the two direct splitting algorithm on this data set.

Source

Scammon, R. M. (1965) America at the Polls, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.

SPAETH2 Cluster Analysis Datasets http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/datasets/spaeth2/spaeth2.html

References

Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York.

Examples

data(ct.president.vote.1920.1964)