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R Package for Aldrich-McKelvey and Basic Space Scaling

Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Jeffrey Lewis, James Lo and Royce Carroll



Download basicspace:Aldrich-McKelvey and BasicSpace Analysis Software for R

Accompanying paper:
Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Jeffrey Lewis, James Lo and Royce Carroll."Recovering a Basic Space from Issue Scales in R"


Background articles on the methods included in the package:


Aldrich-McKelvey Examples



BLACKBOX Examples



BLACKBOX TRANSPOSE EXAMPLES



STATA FILES



The STATA files for the American National Election Studies were created using the data posted on the NES website ANES Data Center Page.

NES2008_FIRST.DTA -- NES 2008 STATA 7 file
NES2008_FIRST_11.DTA -- NES 2008 STATA 11 file
NES2008_TRADITIONAL.DAT -- NES 2008 In traditional text format
NES2008_TRADITIONAL.CBK -- NES 2008 Codebook In traditional text format
NES2004_FIRST.DTA -- NES 2004 STATA 7 file
NES2004_FIRST_11.DTA -- NES 2004 STATA 11 file
NES2004_TRADITIONAL.DAT -- NES 2004 In traditional text format
NES2000_FIRST.DTA -- NES 2000 STATA 7 file
NES2000_FIRST_11.DTA -- NES 2000 STATA 11 file
NES2000_TRADITIONAL.DAT -- NES 2000 In traditional text format
NES1996_FIRST.DTA -- NES 1996 STATA 7 file
NES1996_FIRST_11.DTA -- NES 1996 STATA 11 file
NES1992_FIRST.DTA -- NES 1992 STATA 7 file
NES1992_FIRST_11.DTA -- NES 1992 STATA 11 file
NES1988_FIRST.DTA -- NES 1988 STATA 7 file
NES1988_FIRST_11.DTA -- NES 1988 STATA 11 file
NES1984_FIRST.DTA -- NES 1984 STATA 7 file
NES1984_FIRST_11.DTA -- NES 1984 STATA 11 file
NES1980_FIRST.DTA -- NES 1980 STATA 7 file
NES1980_FIRST_11.DTA -- NES 1980 STATA 11 file
NES1976_FIRST.DTA -- NES 1976 STATA 7 file
NES1976_FIRST_11.DTA -- NES 1976 STATA 11 file
NES1972_FIRST.DTA -- NES 1972 STATA 7 file
NES1972_FIRST_11.DTA -- NES 1972 STATA 11 file
NES1968_FIRST.DTA -- NES 1968 STATA 7 file
NES1968_FIRST_11.DTA -- NES 1968 STATA 11 file


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