extractMargins

extract margins from the results of a ballot count

Fork of 'vote_2.3-2', Raftery et al. (2021)
<DOI:10.32614/RJ-2021-086>, with additional support
for stochastic experimentation.

Clark Thomborson 

SafeVote

Election Vote Counting with Safety Features

Clark Thomborson

extractMargins function

<dl><dt>marginNames</dt>
<dd>list of colnames of the margins in our SafeRank result</dd>
<dt>crRanks</dt>
<dd>ranks of candidates, not necessarily total</dd>
<dt>cr</dt>
<dd>structure returned by a ballot-counting method
Margins are adjusted for tied candidates, such that candidates within a tie
group have margins indicative of their relative strengths. Extremely small
margins are indicative of floating-point roundoff errors.</dd></dl>

Arguments

extract margins from the results of a ballot count — extractMargins

<dl>

<dt>marginNames</dt>
<dd>list of colnames of the margins in our SafeRank result</dd>


<dt>crRanks</dt>
<dd>ranks of candidates, not necessarily total</dd>


<dt>cr</dt>
<dd>structure returned by a ballot-counting method
Margins are adjusted for tied candidates, such that candidates within a tie
group have margins indicative of their relative strengths. Extremely small
margins are indicative of floating-point roundoff errors.</dd>

</dl>

extractMargins: extract margins from the results of a ballot count

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