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Replication Data for: Scaling Data from Multiple Sources

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Title Replication Data for: Scaling Data from Multiple Sources
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FOUVEL
 
Creator Enamorado, Ted
Lopez-Moctezuma, Gabriel
Ratkovic, Marc
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description We introduce a method for scaling two data sets from different sources. The proposed method estimates a latent factor common to both datasets as well as an idiosyncratic factor unique to each. In addition, it offers a flexible modeling strategy that permits the scaled locations to be a function of covariates, and efficient implementation allows for inference through resampling. A simulation study shows that our proposed method improves over existing alternatives in capturing the variation common to both datasets, as well as the latent factors specific to each. We apply our proposed method to vote and speech data from the 112th U.S. Senate. We recover a shared subspace that aligns with a standard ideological dimension running from liberals to conservatives while recovering the words most associated with each senator's location. In addition, we estimate a word-specific subspace that ranges from national security to budget concerns, and a vote-specific subspace with Tea Party senators on one extreme and senior committee leaders on the other.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Code Ocean