3 papers
stat.AP2026
Can statistical models capture Mamdani's success? Social choice, ranked-choice voting, and model fit, with an application to the 2025 New York City Democratic Primary
Michael Pearce, Erin R. Lipman, Christopher Adolph +1
Ranked-choice voting is increasingly prevalent in elections. An extensive literature in social choice theory -- the study of collective decision-making with the goal of making comp…
stat.AP2024
Explaining Differences in Voting Patterns Across Voting Domains Using Hierarchical Bayesian Models
Erin Lipman, Scott Moser, Abel Rodriguez
Spatial voting models of legislators' preferences are used in political science to test theories about their voting behavior. These models posit that legislators' ideologies as wel…
stat.ME2024
On Data Analysis Pipelines and Modular Bayesian Modeling
Erin Lipman, Abel Rodriguez
The most common approach to implementing data analysis pipelines involves obtaining point estimates from the upstream modules and then treating these as known quantities when worki…