Exit polling in a cold climate: The BBC-ITV experience in Britain in 2005

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 509-539

  Curtice, John ^a   Firth, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exit poll; Forecasting; General election; Postal voting; Probability calibration; Steed swing; Swingometer; Ternary diagram

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949118788     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00536.x     Document Type: Article

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