CA_House_2008: Set of 2008 California U.S. House Races

In elec.strat: Functions for election audits using stratified random samples

Description

A list of 20 strat.elec.data objects, each containing voting data for a contest in the 2008 California U.S. House Race. The data for contest i is contained in the strat.elec.data object CA_House_2008.strat[[i]].

Usage

	data(CA_House_2008)

Details

Each of the 20 contests had exactly two candidates that received a large portion of the vote. Each contest was contained within 2 to 5 counties. optStrat can find sample sizes for most of these contests in a reasonable amount of time.

Data for the contests were obtained through the California Statewide Database (SWDB). The data can be found at http://swdb.berkeley.edu/pub/data/G08/state/state_g08_sov_data_by_g08_svprec.dbf.

Examples

data(CA_House_2008)
optStrat(CA_House_2008.strat[[3]], alpha = .1, t = 0)

elec.strat documentation built on May 1, 2019, 8:39 p.m.