Borda and the maximum likelihood approach to vote aggregation

Mathematical social sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 96-102

  Truchon, Michel ^a  

^a CIRANO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Borda; Maximum likelihood; Ranking rules; Vote aggregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849047826     PISSN: 01654896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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