Federalist                package:vcd                R Documentation

'_M_a_y' _i_n _F_e_d_e_r_a_l_i_s_t _P_a_p_e_r_s

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Data from Mosteller & Wallace (1984) investigating the use of
     certain keywords ('may' in this data set) to identify the author
     of 12 disputed 'Federalist Papers' by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay
     and James Madison.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(Federalist)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A 1-way table giving the number of occurrences of 'may' in 262
     blocks of text.  The variable and its levels are

       No  Name  Levels
        1  nMay  0, 1, ..., 6

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, page 19.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     F. Mosteller & D. L. Wallace (1984), _Applied Bayesian and
     Classical Inference: The Case of the Federalist Papers_.
     Springer-Verlag, New York, NY. 

     M. Friendly (2000), _Visualizing Categorical Data_. SAS Institute,
     Cary, NC.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data(Federalist)
     gf <- goodfit(Federalist, type = "nbinomial")
     summary(gf)
     plot(gf)

