| politicalInformation {pscl} | R Documentation |
Interviewers administering the 2000 American National Election Studies assigned an ordinal rating to each respondent's "general level of information" about politics and public affairs.
data(politicalInformation)
A data frame with 1807 observations on the following 8 variables.
yVery Low Fairly Low Average Fairly High Very HighcollegeDegreeNo YesfemaleNo YesagehomeOwnNo YesgovtNo Yeslengthid
Seven respondents have missing data on the ordinal interviewer rating.
The covariates age and length also have some missing data.
The National Election Studies (www.electionstudies.org). THE 2000 NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY [dataset]. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies [producer and distributor].
Jackman, Simon. 2009. Bayesian Analysis for the Social Sciences. Wiley: Hoboken, New Jersey.
data(politicalInformation)
table(politicalInformation$y,exclude=NULL)
require(MASS)
op <- polr(y ~ collegeDegree + female + log(age) + homeOwn + govt + log(length),
data=politicalInformation,
Hess=TRUE,
method="probit")