Covariates specific to one person about idealstan HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi michael -

Sorry I just saw this. Don't worry, development on the project is very active. I will have a major release (v. 1.0) within the next two months. It will have the ability to do within-chain parallelization to fit much bigger models.

Because the data are entered in long-form, you can code the covariates however you want - they can vary by person, by bill (item), by time point, etc. In your case, I would probably add a dummy variable for that one person and then interact the covariates with that dummy variable. You would then have a baseline (all of the legislators) plus an interaction effect specific to that person.

I'll also have better covariate plotting in the next version. Unfortunately, a lot of my time is currently taken up with a coronavirus-related project :(, but getting this out is a top priority.

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That's great to hear! And thanks for the recommendation, I will try out the dummy interaction. I might open a few other issues to suggest some features that I thought would benefit the package, although you may have already had these in mind for the next release.

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Sure thing! I'm happy to hear your suggestions.

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