predprob.ideal {pscl} | R Documentation |
predicted probabilities from fitting ideal to rollcall data
Description
Computes predicted probabilities of a “Yea” vote conditional on the posterior means of the legislators' ideal points and vote-specific parameters.
Usage
## S3 method for class 'ideal'
predprob(obj, ...)
Arguments
obj |
An object of class |
... |
Arguments to be passed to other functions |
Details
This is a wrapper function to predict.ideal
, extracting
just the predicted probabilities component of the object returned by
that function. Predicted probabilities can and are generated for each
voting decision, irrespective of whether the legislator actually voted
on any particular roll call.
Value
A matrix
of dimension n
(number of legislators)
by m
(number of roll call votes).
Author(s)
Simon Jackman simon.jackman@sydney.edu.au
See Also
ideal
, predprob
, predict.ideal
Examples
f <- system.file("extdata","id1.rda",package="pscl")
load(f)
phat <- predprob(id1)
dim(phat)
[Package pscl version 1.5.9 Index]