R: 'May' in Federalist Papers

Federalist {vcd} | R Documentation

## ‘May’ in Federalist Papers

### Description

Data from Mosteller & Wallace (1984) investigating the use of certain keywords (‘may’ in this data set) to identify the author of 12 disputed ‘Federalist Papers’ by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison.

### Usage

    data("Federalist")

### Format

A 1-way table giving the number of occurrences of ‘may’ in 262 blocks of text. The variable and its levels are

No | Name | Levels
1 | nMay | 0, 1, ..., 6

### Source

Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, page 19.

### References

F. Mosteller & D. L. Wallace (1984), Applied Bayesian and Classical Inference: The Case of the Federalist Papers. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

### Examples

    data("Federalist")
    gf <- goodfit(Federalist, type = "nbinomial")
    summary(gf)
    plot(gf)

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