Robust Measurement with 'Stan'

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Documentation for package ‘idealstan’ version 1.0

• DESCRIPTION file
• User guides, package vignettes and other documentation
• Package NEWS
• Package README

Help Pages

delaware	Rollcall vote data for Delaware State Legislature
derive_chain	Helper Function for 'loo' calculation
idealdata-class	Data and Identification for 'id_estimate'
idealstan-class	Results of 'id_estimate' function
id_estimate	Estimate an 'idealstan' model
id_extract	Generic Method for Extracting Posterior Samples
id_extract-method	Extract 'stan' joint posterior distribution from 'idealstan' object
id_make	Create data to run IRT model
id_me	Calculate ideal point marginal effects
id_me-method	Calculate ideal point marginal effects
id_plot_all_hist	Density plots of Posterior Parameters
id_plot_compare	Function to compare two fitted idealstan models by plotting ideal points. Assumes that underlying data is the same for both models.
id_plot_cov	Marginal Effects Plot for Hierarchical Covariates
id_plot_gbeta_prior	Launch the Generalized Beta Distribution Explorer Shiny App
id_plot_items	Plot Item Discrimination or Difficulty Parameters
id_plot_legis_var	Plot Legislator/Person Over-time Variances
id_plot_persons	Plot Legislator/Person and Bill/Item Ideal Points
id_plot_persons_dyn	Function to plot dynamic ideal point models
id_plot_ppc	Plot Posterior Predictive Distribution for 'idealstan' Objects
id_plot_ppc-method	Plot Posterior Predictive Distribution for 'idealstan' Objects
id_plot_rhats	Plotting Function to Display Rhat Distribution
id_plot_sims	This function plots the results from a simulation generated by 'id_sim_gen()'.
id_post_pred	Generic Method for Obtaining Posterior Predictive Distribution from Stan Objects
id_post_pred-method	Posterior Prediction for 'idealstan' objects
id_show_trues	This function plots the results from a simulation generated by 'id_sim_gen()'.
id_sim_coverage	Function that computes how often the true value of the parameter is included within the 95/5 high posterior density interval
id_sim_gen	Simulate IRT ideal point data
id_sim_resid	Residual function for checking estimated samples compared to true simulation scores Returns a data frame with residuals plus quantiles.
id_sim_rmse	RMSE function for calculating individual RMSE values compared to true simulation scores Returns a data frame with RMSE plus quantiles.
launch_shinystan	Generic Method to Use 'shinystan' with 'idealstan'
launch_shinystan-method	Function to Launch Shinystan with an 'idealstan' Object
release_questions	Function that provides additional check questions for package release
senate114	Rollcall vote data for 114th Senate
stan_trace	Plot the MCMC posterior draws by chain
stan_trace-method	Plot the MCMC posterior draws by chain
summary-method	Posterior Summaries for fitted 'idealstan' object