Reliability of the Uncertified Ballots in the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida

American Statistician

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-14

  Wolter, Kirk ^a   Jergovic, Diana ^b   Moore, Whitney ^c   Murphy, Joe ^d   O'Muircheartaigh, Colm ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c National Opinion Research Center   (United States)

^d RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; Bush; Coding; Consistency; Gore; Multilevel models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037324711     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/0003130031144     Document Type: Article

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