summary.nomObject {wnominate}

W-NOMINATE Summary

Description

summary.nomObject reads a W-NOMINATE object and prints a summary.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'nomObject'
summary(object,verbose=FALSE, ...)              

Arguments

object

a wnominate output object.

verbose

logical, includes all ideal points if TRUE, otherwise only returns the first 10 legislators.

...

other arguments do nothing and are not passed to any functions.

Value

A summary of a wnominate object. Correct classification, APRE, and GMP are reported separately for each dimension.

Author(s)

Keith Poole [e-mail]

Jeffrey Lewis [e-mail]

James Lo [e-mail]

Royce Carroll [e-mail]

See Also

'wnominate', 'plot.coords', 'plot.scree', 'plot.angles', 'plot.cutlines', 'plot.nomObject'

Examples

    #This data file is the same as that obtained using:
    #data(sen90)
    #sen90wnom<-wnominate(sen90,polarity=c(2,5))
    data(sen90wnom)
    summary(sen90wnom)
    plot(sen90wnom)