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The polls data from Gelman and Hill ()
Description
This is the dataset used in Gelman & Hill's book, Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models. They are polling data on the presidential election from 1988, collected one week before the election. You can download all the data from the book here: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/arm/examples/ARM_Data.zip. Note that this is only a few of the variables from the original data supplied with the book.
Usage
polls
Format
A tibble with 13,544 rows and 7 variables:
- state
An integer denoting the state identification number.
- edu
An ordered factor stating the education level of the respondent
- age
An unordered factor stating the age of range of the respondent
- female
A dummy variable (integer) denoting whether the respondent was coded as male (female = 0) or female (female = 1).
- black
A dummy variable (integer) denoting whether the respondent was coded as Black (black = 1) or not Black (black = 0).
- weight
A sampling weight
- bush
Whether the respondent stated they were in favor of voting for George Bush Sr.