Bayesian Aldrich-McKelvey Scaling Software and Examples

Dave Armstrong, Ryan Bakker, Royce Carroll, Christopher Hare, and Keith T. Poole

(Updated 9 December 2012)

Software and Examples

aldmck_JAGScode_ANES_1968_Vietnam.bug -- BUGS code called for in BAM_ANES1968_Vietnam.r
ANES1968.dta -- ANES 1968 data file (in Stata format)

Note: This code is set up to run on matrices in which respondent self-placements are in the FIRST column and rankings of the left-leaning stimulus are in the SECOND column.

Software Requirements:

JAGS (Just Another Gibbs Sampler) -- Flexible method for Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation

rjags -- R package to run JAGS within the R environment

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