dfm from data in Table 1 of Laver, Benoit, and Garry (2003)
Constructed example data to demonstrate the Wordscores algorithm, from Laver Benoit and Garry (2003), Table 1.
data_dfm_lbgexample
A dfm object with 6 documents and 37 features.
This is the example word count data from Laver, Benoit and Garry's (2003) Table 1. Documents R1 to R5 are assumed to have known positions: -1.5, -0.75, 0, 0.75, 1.5. Document V1 is assumed unknown, and will have a raw text score of approximately -0.45 when computed as per LBG (2003).
Laver, M., Benoit, K.R., & Garry, J. (2003). Estimating Policy Positions from Political Text using Words as Data. American Political Science Review, 97(2), 311–331.
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