8 papers
Stylish Risk-Limiting Audits in Practice
Amanda K. Glazer, Jacob V. Spertus, Philip B. Stark
Risk-limiting audits (RLAs) can use information about which ballot cards contain which contests (card-style data, CSD) to ensure that each contest receives adequate scrutiny, witho…
COBRA: Comparison-Optimal Betting for Risk-limiting Audits
Jacob Spertus
Risk-limiting audits (RLAs) can provide routine, affirmative evidence that reported election outcomes are correct by checking a random sample of cast ballots. An efficient RLA requ…
Sweeter than SUITE: Supermartingale Stratified Union-Intersection Tests of Elections
Jacob V. Spertus, Philip B. Stark
Stratified sampling can be useful in risk-limiting audits (RLAs), for instance, to accommodate heterogeneous voting equipment or laws that mandate jurisdictions draw their audit sa…
Optimal sampling and assay for soil organic carbon estimation
Jacob V Spertus
The world needs around 150 Pg of negative carbon emissions to mitigate climate change. Global soils may provide a stable, sizeable reservoir to help achieve this goal by sequesteri…
More style, less work: card-style data decrease risk-limiting audit sample sizes
Amanda K. Glazer, Jacob V. Spertus, Philip B. Stark
U.S. elections rely heavily on computers such as voter registration databases, electronic pollbooks, voting machines, scanners, tabulators, and results reporting websites. These in…
Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Multiple Continuous Treatments: An Application to Antipsychotic Drugs
Jacob Spertus, Marcela Horvitz-Lennon, Sharon-Lise Normand
Modeling dose-response relationships of drugs is essential to understanding their effect on patient outcomes under realistic circumstances. While intention-to-treat analyses of cli…