At 09:33 AM 7/25/01 -0400, Sanford Lefkowitz wrote:
>In a certain process, there are millions of people voting for thousands
>of candidates. The top N will be declared "winners". But the counting
>process is flawed and with probability 'p', a vote will be miscounted.
>(it might be counted for the wrong candidate or it might be counted for
>a non-existent candidate.)
could you elaborate on a real context for something like this? sure, in
elections, millions of people vote for thousands of candidates BUT ...
winners are not determined by the top N # of votes across the millions ...
for example ... in utah ... the winner might have a very SMALL SMALL
fraction of millions ... but, in ny state ... a LOSER might have a very
LARGE fraction of the millions
so, a little more detail about a real context .... might be helpful
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