Re: [EM] Statistical analysis of Voter Models versus real life voting

2011-01-29 Thread Leon Smith
Hi Kevin, On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Kevin Venzke step...@yahoo.fr wrote: The 2D Yee diagrams cast voters around a point without any bias in favor of one dimension or the other, as far as I know. I don't think that is likely to be realistic. I think a 1D Yee diagram would be more

Re: [EM] Statistical analysis of Voter Models versus real life voting

2011-01-29 Thread Leon Smith
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km-el...@broadpark.no wrote: One could generalize Yee diagrams to other distances than Euclidean, but AFAIK, there's a theorem that says that with any centrosymmetric distribution, the Yee diagram for a Condorcet method is the L2 Voronoi

Re: [EM] Statistical analysis of Voter Models versus real life voting

2011-01-29 Thread Juho Laatu
Simplified models can be used to prove something about real life if one assumes that the model is accurate enough for the situation in question. 2D models are often very good in demonstrating and visualizing some properties of voting methods. But they can thus not be assumed to prove some

Re: [EM] Statistical analysis of Voter Models versus real life voting

2011-01-29 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Leon Smith wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km-el...@broadpark.no wrote: One could generalize Yee diagrams to other distances than Euclidean, but AFAIK, there's a theorem that says that with any centrosymmetric distribution, the Yee diagram for a Condorcet method

[EM] Statistical analysis of Voter Models versus real life voting

2011-01-28 Thread Leon Smith
There are a couple different (honest) voter models that have commonly been used. The two used in Warren's Bayesian Regret simulations and ranked Yee diagrams come to mind, of course. Given access to enough data of fully-ranked, it seems to me that it should be possible, especially with a Yee

Re: [EM] Statistical analysis of Voter Models versus real life voting

2011-01-28 Thread Kevin Venzke
Hi Leon, --- En date de : Ven 28.1.11, Leon Smith leon.p.sm...@gmail.com a écrit : There are a couple different (honest) voter models that have commonly been used.   The two used in Warren's Bayesian Regret simulations and ranked Yee diagrams come to mind, of course. Given access to

Re: [EM] Statistical analysis of Voter Models versus real life voting

2011-01-28 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Leon Smith wrote: There are a couple different (honest) voter models that have commonly been used. The two used in Warren's Bayesian Regret simulations and ranked Yee diagrams come to mind, of course. I think Warren's Bayesian Regret simulations use a number of models, averaging together