iraqVote {pscl} | R Documentation

## U.S. Senate vote on the use of force against Iraq, 2002.

### Description

On October 11, 2002, the United States Senate voted 77-23 to authorize the use of military force against Iraq. This data set lists the “Ayes” and “Nays” for each Senator and some covariates.

### Usage

    data(iraqVote)

### Format

A data frame with 100 observations on the following 6 variables.

`y`

  a numeric vector, the recorded vote (1 if Aye, 0 if Nay)

`state.abb`

  two letter abbreviation for each state

`name`

  senator name, party and state, e.g., `AKAKA (D HI)`

`rep`

  logical, `TRUE` for Republican senators

`state.name`

  name of state

`gorevote`

  numeric, the vote share recorded by Al Gore in the corresponding state in the 2000 Presidential election

### Details

The only Republican to vote against the resolution was Lincoln Chafee (Rhode Island); Democrats split 29-22 in favor of the resolution.

### Source

Keith Poole, 107th Senate Roll Call Data. https://voteview.com/static/data/out/votes/S107_votes.ord The Iraq vote is vote number 617.

David Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. http://uselectionatlas.org

### References

Jackman, Simon. 2009. Bayesian Analysis for the Social Sciences. Wiley: Chichester. Example 8.3.

### Examples

    data(iraqVote)
    ## probit model
    glm1 <- glm(y ~ gorevote + rep,
                data=iraqVote,
                family=binomial(link=probit))

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