Gene Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>There is a very interesting analysis on Bruce Hansen's U. Wisconsin web
>page describing the yield and error rates in the analysis of undervotes:
>http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~bhansen/vote/vote.html
>The link is to his web page with several articles, the lead article,
>‘Recount in Dade County?' derives an 8% misclassification rate based on
>the 20% of Dade County precincts that were analyzed.
I found it interesting that he supported this estimate of an 8% error
rate by showing that the actual results of the recount in 135
precincts were inconsistent with the assumption of no error rate.
Maybe a machine count IS more accurate than a manual count.
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