votes {turboEM}

Roll Call Votes

Description

Roll call votes from the U.S. House of Representatives, 2005.

Usage

data(votes)

Format

A 401-by-669 matrix whose (i,j)-entry corresponds to the vote of the ith representative on the jth roll call. Possible votes are "yea", "nay", or "not voting", which are represented by 1/2, -1/2, and 0, respectively.

Source

Diaconis PD, Goel S, and Holmes S (2008). Horseshoes in Multidimensional Scaling and Local Kernel Methods. Annals of Applied Statistics. 2 (3) 777-807. Supplementary material.