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Robust Model-Based Clustering of Voting Records

05/10/2018
by   Yang Tang, et al.
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We explore the possibility of discovering extreme voting patterns in the U.S. Congressional voting records by drawing ideas from the mixture of contaminated normal distributions. A mixture of latent trait models via contaminated normal distributions is proposed. We assume that the low dimensional continuous latent variable comes from a contaminated normal distribution and, therefore, picks up extreme patterns in the observed binary data while clustering. We consider in particular such model for the analysis of voting records. The model is applied to a U.S. Congressional Voting data set on 16 issues. Note this approach is the first instance within the literature of a mixture model handling binary data with possible extreme patterns.

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