[EM] Apportionment bias

2006-12-10 Thread Warren Smith
To clarify: I claim my randomized rounding method has zero bias. This is based on the mathematical defintion of bias used by statisticians: a quantity whose expectation value is the value it is supposed to be, is unbiased otherwise it is biased. You can design it to leave X unbiased where X is a

Re: [EM] Apportionment (biased?) let me add some more confusion to the mix :)

2006-12-10 Thread Juho
Yes, random allocations are yet another way to balance the situation. Since the population of a state changes quite slowly some fixes (random, time division, voting power) may be wanted to reduce the risk of continuously getting less seats than the population would give right to. Changes