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houseRace10 {openintro}

Election results for the 2010 U.S. House of Represenatives races
Package: 
openintro
Version: 
1.4

Description

Election results for the 2010 U.S. House of Represenatives races

Usage

data(houseRace10)

Details

This analysis in the Examples section was inspired by and is similar to that of Nate Silver's district-level analysis on the FiveThirtyEight blog in the New York Times:

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/2010-an-aligning-election/

Examples

data(houseRace10)
hr <- table(houseRace10[,c("abbr", "party1")])
nr <- apply(hr, 1, sum)
 
data(prRace08)
pr   <- prRace08[prRace08$state != "DC",c("state", "pObama")]
hr   <- hr[as.character(pr$state),]
(fit <- glm(hr ~ pr$pObama, family=binomial))
 
x1 <- pr$pObama[match(houseRace10$abbr, pr$state)]
y1 <- (houseRace10$party1 == "Democrat")+0
g  <- glm(y1 ~ x1, family=binomial)
 
 
x  <- pr$pObama[pr$state != "DC"]
nr <- apply(hr, 1, sum)
plot(x, hr[,"Democrat"]/nr, pch=19, cex=sqrt(nr), col="#22558844", xlim=c(20, 80), ylim=c(0, 1), xlab="Percent vote for Obama in 2008", ylab="Probability of Democrat winning House seat")
X  <- seq(0, 100, 0.1)
lo <- -5.6079 + 0.1009*X
p  <- exp(lo)/(1+exp(lo))
lines(X, p)
abline(h=0:1, lty=2, col="#888888")

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