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Ballot-Polling Audits of Instant-Runoff Voting Elections with a Dirichlet-Tree Model
Floyd Everest, Michelle Blom, Philip B. Stark +3
Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is used in several countries around the world. It requires voters to rank candidates in order of preference, and uses a counting algorithm that is more…
Assessing the accuracy of the Australian Senate count: Key steps for a rigorous and transparent audit
Michelle Blom, Philip B. Stark, Peter J. Stuckey +2
This paper explains the main principles and some of the technical details for auditing the scanning and digitisation of the Australian Senate ballot papers. We give a short summary…
Scaling multi-species occupancy models to large citizen science datasets
Martin Ingram, Damjan Vukcevic, Nick Golding
Citizen science datasets can be very large and promise to improve species distribution modelling, but detection is imperfect, risking bias when fitting models. In particular, obser…
Auditing Ranked Voting Elections with Dirichlet-Tree Models: First Steps
Floyd Everest, Michelle Blom, Philip B. Stark +3
Ranked voting systems, such as instant-runoff voting (IRV) and single transferable vote (STV), are used in many places around the world. They are more complex than plurality and sc…
Investigating the efficiency of marginalising over discrete parameters in Bayesian computations
Wen Zhang, Jeffrey Pullin, Lyle Gurrin +1
Bayesian analysis methods often use some form of iterative simulation such as Monte Carlo computation. Models that involve discrete variables can sometime pose a challenge, either…