Eurovision Dance contest dataset

Voting patterns from Eurovision Dance Contest 2008

data(eurovision)

Format

A hyper2 object that gives a likelihood function.

Details

Object eurodance is a hyper2 object that gives a likelihood function for the skills of the 14 competitor countries in 2008 Eurovision Dance contest. Object eurodance_table gives the original dataset and eurodance_maxp the evaluate of the competitors' Plackett-Luce strengths.

The dataset is interesting because, in addition to the regular votes by each nation, there is an Expert jury vote as well. We may use Plackett-Luce likelihoods to compare the performance of the Expert jury with the national votes.

These objects can be generated by running script inst/eurodance.Rmd, which includes some further discussion and technical documentation and creates file eurodance.rda which resides in the data/ directory.

References

• Wikipedia contributors, “Eurovision Song Contest 2009—Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia”, 2018, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eurovision_Song_Contest_2009&oldid=838723921 [Online; accessed 13-May-2018].

• P. M. E. Altham, personal communication

See also

eurodance

Examples

data(eurodance)
dotchart(eurodance_maxp)