Dear Brian!
data: 1, 1, 1, 999
std: 499
gini: 0.747005988023952
From this you see that the Gini coefficient is something between 0 and
1, measuring the degree of inequality irrespective of the total.
By the way, the description on Wikipedia is much more complicated than
necessary, since it
Hi everybody. I know I haven't posted much for quite some time. Right now I'm working on a paper on a result in strategic voting. I'll post the result once I've written the paper and checked the logic of the proof carefully. For now, I'm hoping somebody can help me with a reference:At one
Jobst,
Thanks for doing these simulations and getting us thinking along these lines.
I wonder how Bucklin would fare in your simulations? Or how about the quartile
variation of Bucklin in which the bar is lowered simultaneously on the range
style ballots until at least one candidate is
Let's consider the case of one candidate ordering (i.e. ranking) per candidate.
One way this can happen is by each voter supporting the ranking published by
his or her favorite candidate. Another way that this can be achieved is by
averaging together all of the ballots that rate a given
Hi,
Alex Small's definition of monotonicity (below) matches one that's
commonly used. (It's the one I use in my website about the Maximize
Affirmed Majorities voting method. MAM happens to be monotonic.)
A couple of years ago someone posted here in EM the web addresses of
two papers by
