houseVotes {fclust} | R Documentation |
Congressional Voting Records Data
Description
1984 United Stated Congressional Voting Records for each of the U.S. House of Representatives Congressmen on the 16 key votes identified by the Congressional Quarterly Almanac.
Usage
data(houseVotes)
Format
A data.frame with 435 rows on 17 columns (16 qualitative variables and 1 classification variable).
Details
The data collect 1984 United Stated Congressional Voting Records for each of the 435 U.S. House of Representatives Congressmen on the 16 key votes identified by the Congressional Quarterly Almanac (CQA). The variable class
splits the observations in democrat
and republican
. The qualitative variables refer to the votes on handicapped-infants
, water-project-cost-sharing
, adoption-of-the-budget-resolution
, physician-fee-freeze
, el-salvador-aid
, religious-groups-in-schools
, anti-satellite-test-ban
, aid-to-nicaraguan-contras
, mx-missile
, immigration
, synfuels-corporation-cutback
, education-spending
, superfund-right-to-sue
, crime
, duty-free-exports
, and export-administration-act-south-africa
. All these 16 variables are objects of class factor
with three levels according to the CQA scheme: y
refers to the types of votes ”voted for”, ”paired for” and ”announced for”; n
to ”voted against”, ”paired against” and ”announced against”; codeyn to ”voted present”, ”voted present to avoid conflict of interest” and ”did not vote or otherwise make a position known”.
Author(s)
Paolo Giordani, Maria Brigida Ferraro, Alessio Serafini
Source
https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/congressional+voting+records
References
Schlimmer, J.C., 1987. Concept acquisition through representational adjustment. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA.
See Also
Examples
data(houseVotes)
X=houseVotes[,-1]
class=houseVotes[,1]