R Package for Analyzing Endorsement Experiments

Yuki Shiraito <shiraito@princeton.edu>, Kosuke Imai <kimai@princeton.edu>
This R package implements the statistical model proposed by Bullock, Imai, and Shapiro (2011; Political Analysis) to analyze endorsement experiments.  Endorsement experiments are a survey methodology for eliciting truthful responses to sensitive questions.  This methodology is helpful when measuring support for socially sensitive political actors such as militant groups.  The model is fitted with the Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm and produces the output containing draws from the posterior distribution.

c(person("Yuki", "Shiraito", role = c("aut","cre"), email = "shiraito@princeton.edu"),
person("Kosuke", "Imai", role = "aut", email = "kimai@princeton.edu"),
person("Bryn", "Rosenfeld", role = "ctb", email = "brosenfe@usc.edu"))
Yuki Shiraito [aut, cre], Kosuke Imai [aut], Bryn Rosenfeld [ctb]

Bayesian Measurement Models for Analyzing Endorsement
Experiments
Fit the hierarchical and non-hierarchical Bayesian measurement models proposed by Bullock, Imai, and Shapiro (2011) <DOI:10.1093/pan/mpr031> to analyze endorsement experiments.  Endorsement experiments are a survey methodology for eliciting truthful responses to sensitive questions.  This methodology is helpful when measuring support for socially sensitive political actors such as militant groups.  The model is fitted with a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm and produces the output containing draws from the posterior distribution.

c(person("Yuki", "Shiraito", role = c("aut","cre"), email = "shiraito@umich.edu"),
person("Kosuke", "Imai", role = "aut", email = "imai@harvard.edu"),
person("Bryn", "Rosenfeld", role = "ctb", email = "brosenfe@usc.edu"))
Yuki Shiraito [aut, cre],
Kosuke Imai [aut],
Bryn Rosenfeld [ctb]

Computes the expectation of the number of transmissions and receptions considering an End-to-End transport model with limited number of retransmissions per packet. It provides theoretical results and also estimated values based on Monte Carlo simulations.