summary.nomObject {wnominate}R Documentation

W-NOMINATE Summary

Description

summary.nomObject reads a W-NOMINATE object and prints a summary.

Usage

summary.nomObject(object,verbose=FALSE,...)              

Arguments

object a wnominate output object.
verbose logical, includes all ideal points if TRUE, otherwise only returns the first 10 legislators.
... other arguments do nothing and are not passed to any functions.

Value

A summary of a wnominate object. Correct classification, APRE, and GMP are reported separately for each dimension.

Author(s)

Keith Poole kpoole@ucsd.edu

Jeffrey Lewis jblewis@ucla.edu

James Lo jameslo@ucla.edu

Royce Carroll rcarroll@ucsd.edu

See Also

'wnominate', 'plot.coords', 'plot.skree', 'plot.angles', 'plot.cutlines', 'plot.nomObject'

Examples

    #This data file is the same as that obtained using:
    #data(sen90)
    #sen90wnom<-wnominate(sen90,polarity=c(2,5))
    data(sen90wnom)
    summary(sen90wnom)
    plot(sen90wnom)

[Package wnominate version 0.94 Index]