| Votes {cba} | R Documentation |
This data set includes votes for each of the U.S. House of Representatives Congressmen on the 16 key votes identified by the CQA. The CQA lists nine different types of votes: voted for, paired for, and announced for (these three simplified to yea), voted against, paired against, and announced against (these three simplified to nay), voted present, voted present to avoid conflict of interest, and did not vote or otherwise make a position known (these three simplified to an unknown disposition).
data(Votes)
A data frame with 435 observations on the following 17 variables.
handicapped-infantsn and ywater-project-cost-sharingn and yadoption-of-the-budget-resolutionn and yphysician-fee-freezen and yel-salvador-aidn and yreligious-groups-in-schoolsn and yanti-satellite-test-bann and yaid-to-nicaraguan-contrasn and ymx-missilen and yimmigrationn and ysynfuels-corporation-cutbackn and yeducation-spendingn and ysuperfund-right-to-suen and ycrimen and yduty-free-exportsn and yexport-administration-act-south-african and yClassdemocrat and republicanThe records are drawn from:
Congressional Quarterly Almanac, 98th Congress, 2nd session 1984, Volume XL: Congressional Quarterly Inc. Washington, D.C., 1985.
It is important to recognize that NA in this database does
not mean that the value of the attribute is unknown. It
means simply, that the value is not "yea" or "nay" (see above).
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html
Blake, C.L. & Merz, C.J. (1998). UCI Repository of Machine Learning Databases. Irvine, CA: University of California, Department of Information and Computer Science.
data(Votes) summary(Votes) ## maybe str(Votes) ; plot(Votes) ...