Percentage-based versus statistical-power-based vote tabulation audits

American Statistician

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-16

  Mccarthy, John ^a   Stanislevic, Howard ^f   Lindeman, Mark ^b   Ash, Arlene S ^c   Addona, Vittorio ^d   Batcher, Mary ^e  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^e Quantitative Economics and Statistics   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Election audits; Election recounts; Electronic voting; Precinct sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049091935     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313008X273779     Document Type: Article

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