Scaling roll call votes with wnominate in R

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1-21

  Poole, Keith ^a   Lewis, Jeffrey ^b   Lo, James ^c   Carroll, Royce ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multivariate; R; Roll call; Scaling; Wnominate

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961221222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v042.i14     Document Type: Article

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