Published January 10, 2018 | Version v1
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idealstan: an R Package for Ideal Point Modeling with Stan

  • 1. University of Virginia

Description

Item-response theory (IRT) ideal-point scaling/dimension reduction methods that incorporate additional response categories and missing/censored values, including absences and abstentions, for roll call voting data (or any other kind of binary or ordinal item-response theory data). Full and approximate Bayesian inference is done via Stan.

Notes

Code and data available at github.com/stan-dev/stancon_talks

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