Predicting presidential and other multistage election outcomes using state-level pre-election polls

American Statistician

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-10

  Christensen, William F ^a   Florence, Lindsay W ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capstone project; Electoral college; News media; Politics; Simulation; U.S. president

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049143385     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313008X267820     Document Type: Article

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