Still in development: Will eventually be an ideal point estimator in Julia
Following the paper by Simon Jackman here: http://www.polmeth.wustl.edu/media/Paper/clint03.pdf
Function exists in R in package "pscl" at http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pscl/pscl.pdf
Questions:
- Why is the legislator search function in the Open States API unable to filter by term?
- How should we initialize NA values in the roll call matrix?
- Is a DataFrame the best way to create the roll call matrix, especially if we need to add legislators later?