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 Data set on "Party Positions in Multiple Dimensions across Time and Space" available
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.. post:: 2014-11-05
   :category: research

.. previewimage:: hbsplot-nonmat.png

Estimates (or more correctly: predictions) of parties’ positions in
multiple dimensions in different countries, spanning the decades from
1945 (1920 for the USA) to 2010 is now available
`here </research/data/>`__ on my website.

.. figure:: hbsplot-nonmat.png
   :figwidth: 350px
   :align: center

   Distribution of parties in the non-materialist policy space

The data are available in csv-format as summaries of the posterior
distribution (means, standard deviations and 95 percent prediction
intervals) and as draws from the posterior distribution (with 5, 100,
and 2000 replications). I plan to extend the data by adding more
dimensions and will also provide software for getting ‘quick-and-dirty’
estimates using a Laplace approximation, which is considerably faster
than the computationally intensive Monte Carlo integration approach used
for the `Political Analysis article </research/publications/dynamic-model-coded-texts>`__
on which the published estimates are based.