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Pay No Attention to the Model Behind the Curtain
Philip B. Stark
Many widely used models amount to an elaborate means of making up numbers--but once a number has been produced, it tends to be taken seriously and its source (the model) is rarely…
Comment on "The statistics wars and intellectual conflicts of interest" by D. Mayo
Philip B. Stark
While P-values are widely abused, they are a useful tool for many purposes; banning them is analogous to banning scalpels because most people do not know how to perform surgery. Ma…
RiLACS: Risk-Limiting Audits via Confidence Sequences
Ian Waudby-Smith, Philip B. Stark, Aaditya Ramdas
Accurately determining the outcome of an election is a complex task with many potential sources of error, ranging from software glitches in voting machines to procedural lapses to…
Auditing Hamiltonian Elections
Michelle Blom, Philip B. Stark, Peter J. Stuckey +2
Presidential primaries are a critical part of the United States Presidential electoral process, since they are used to select the candidates in the Presidential election. While met…
A Unified Evaluation of Two-Candidate Ballot-Polling Election Auditing Methods
Zhuoqun Huang, Ronald L. Rivest, Philip B. Stark +2
Counting votes is complex and error-prone. Several statistical methods have been developed to assess election accuracy by manually inspecting randomly selected physical ballots. Tw…
You can do RLAs for IRV
Michelle Blom, Andrew Conway, Dan King +4
The City and County of San Francisco, CA, has used Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) for some elections since 2004. This report describes the first ever process pilot of Risk Limiting Au…