A critique of distributional analysis in the spatial model

DOI10.1016/J.MATHSOCSCI.2009.09.005MaRDI QIDQ2270337zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Craig A. Tovey

Publication date 18 March 2010

Published in Mathematical Social Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2009.09.005

zbMATH Keywords

convergenceminimaxprobabilityvotingyolkEuclidean preference

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25) Voting theory (91B12)

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