R: Voting Patterns in the Second Rehnquist U.S. Supreme Court

SupremeCourt {seriation} | R Documentation

## Voting Patterns in the Second Rehnquist U.S. Supreme Court

### Description

Contains a (a subset of the) decisions for the stable 8-yr period 1995-2002 of the second Rehnquist Supreme Court. Decisions are aggregated to the joint probability for disagreement between judges.

### Usage

    data("SupremeCourt")

### Format

A square, symmetric 9-by-9 matrix with the joint probability for disagreement.

### Author(s)

Michael Hahsler

### References

Sirovich, L. (2003). A pattern analysis of the second Rehnquist U.S. Supreme Court. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100, 7432-7437. doi:10.1073/pnas.1132164100.

### Examples

    data("SupremeCourt")

    SupremeCourt

    d <- as.dist(SupremeCourt)
    o <- seriate(d)

    pimage(d, o)

    plot(hclust(as.dist(SupremeCourt)))

[Package seriation version 1.3.2 Index]