Gary King is, as some here know better than I do, a very energetic,
talented and productive political scientist at Harvard.
I believe he used Gauss at the time referred to. Latterly he seems
enamoured of R. Let a thousand flowers bloom! However, many of his
students and former students use Stata, and (last I looked) he was very
generously
publicising my -triplot- as a way to do these plots.
Nick
[email protected]
Clive Nicholas
Further afield, Gary King and his colleagues did use Stata (via their
-clarify- routine, since abandoned) to illuminate the value of
electoral triangles (or 'ternary plots' as they called them) by
building upon a previous study of the 1988 Mexican presidential
election. Using survey data, they ran 100 multinomial-logit
simulations (why not 1000?) to estimate the effect of perceived
strength of the PRI party on the probabilities of each of the three
main candidates winning that election. They don't go into much detail,
but the results they do show are quite absorbing (King et al, 2000:
357-8).
King G, Tomz M, and Wittenberg J (2000) "Making the Most of
Statistical Analyses: Improving Interpretation and Presentation,''
American Journal of Political Science 44(2): 347-361.
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