R: Gadarian and Albertson data

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## Gadarian and Albertson data

### Description

This data set contains variables from Gadarian and Albertson (2014). The experiment had those in the treatment condition write about what made them anxious about immigration. The control condition just had subjects write about immigration.

### Format

A data frame with 351 observations on the following 3 variables.

`MetaID`

  A numeric vector containing identification numbers; not used for analysis

`treatment`

  A numeric vector indicating treatment condition

`pid_rep`

  A numeric vector of party identification

`open.ended.response`

  A character vector of the subject's open ended response

### Source

Gadarian, Shana Kushner, and Bethany Albertson. "Anxiety, immigration, and the search for information." Political Psychology 35.2 (2014): 133-164.

Roberts, Margaret E., Brandon M. Stewart, Dustin Tingley, Christopher Lucas, Jetson Leder-Luis, Shana Kushner Gadarian, Bethany Albertson, and David G. Rand. "Structural Topic Models for Open-Ended Survey Responses." American Journal of Political Science 58, no 4 (2014): 1064-1082.

### Examples

    head(gadarian)
    #Process the data for analysis.
    temp<-textProcessor(documents=gadarian$open.ended.response,metadata=gadarian)
    meta<-temp$meta
    vocab<-temp$vocab
    docs<-temp$documents
    out <- prepDocuments(docs, vocab, meta)
    docs<-out$documents
    vocab<-out$vocab
    meta <-out$meta

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