Predicting winner and estimating margin of victory in elections using sampling

DOI10.1016/J.ARTINT.2021.103476MaRDI QIDQ2238579zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arnab Bhattacharyya, Palash Dey

Publication date 2 November 2021

Published in Artificial Intelligence (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2021.103476

zbMATH Keywords

samplingvotingcomputational social choicemargin of victorywinner prediction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Artificial intelligence (68Txx)

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