Probability that a country-year is more democratic than another
prob_more(data, country1, country2, years, mean_col = "z1", sd_col = "se_z1", country_col = "extended_country_name", year_col = "year")
| data | A UD dataset with a country_name, year, latent variable mean and latent variable standard deviation columns at least. Little sanity checking is performed - careful! |
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| country1 | The first country to compare. |
| country2 | The second country to compare. Can be the same as
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| years | Either a single year, or a length 2 vector of years. |
| mean_col | The name of the column that contains the mean of the latent
variable (defaults to |
| sd_col | The name of the column that contains the standard error of the
latent variable (defaults to |
| country_col | The name of the column that contains the country name
(defaults to |
| year_col | The name of the column that contains the years (defaults to
|
The probability that the first country-year in the comparison is more democratic than the second.
# Probability that the USA in 2000 was more democratic than Brazil in 2000, # according to 2010 release of UDS prob_more(uds_2010, "United States of America","Brazil", 2000, mean_col="mean", sd_col="sd")#> [1] 0.9468881# Probability that Brazil in 1980 was more democratic than the USA in 1980, # according to 2010 release of UDS prob_more(uds_2010, "Brazil","United States of America", 1980, mean_col="mean", sd_col="sd")#> [1] 2.325305e-06# Probability that the USA in 2000 was more democratic than the USA in 1950, # according to 2010 release of UDS prob_more(uds_2010, "United States of America","United States of America", years = c(2000,1950), mean_col="mean", sd_col="sd")#> [1] 0.7605136