To Walter,
I am building a model of voting in the EU Council of Ministers. A voting scenario assumes the probabilities of yes votes, possible different for each country, and correlation coefficient between them. The country variables (data) reflect the background characteristics that are relevant for the likelihood of bloc formation in the Council. I would like to cluster the countries in what I call probabilistic voting blocs, and construct a correlation matrix between votes in different blocs and between votes in each bloc. I then use the probabilities and correlation coefficients to construct a joint probability distribution on the set of all conceivable voting outcomes and thus compute the probabilities of voting outcomes that are of interest, such as probability of a country casting a decisive vote, etc. Serguei ________________________________________ Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) P.O.Box 91 Tel.: +43-1-7982601-231 1103 Vienna, Austria Fax: +43-1-7989386 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wifo.ac.at/Serguei.Kaniovski [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
