compute.stark.t: compute.stark.t

In elec: Collection of Functions for Statistical Election Audits

compute.stark.t

Description

Compute the test statistic for election audits, essentially the largest error found in the audit, as measured by the passed functions and methods.

Usage

compute.stark.t(
  Z,
  bound.col,
  calc.e_p = calc.pairwise.e_p,
  w_p = weight.function("no.weight"),
  err.override = NULL,
  return.revised.audit = FALSE
)

Arguments

Z	If it already has an audit table with err and err.weighted then it will use those errors, otherwise it will compute them with compute.stark.err
bound.col	This is the vector containing the maximum number of votes possible in the various precincts.
calc.e_p	Function to compute e_p. Default is calc.pairwise.e_p.
w_p	The weight function to be applied to the precinct error.
err.override	If non-null, use this as the found error in votes rather than the actual errors found in the audit.
return.revised.audit	Return the updated audit frame with the error and weighted errors calculated.

Details

This is an older method that other methods sometime use—it is probably best ignored unless you have a good reason not to.

Value

The test statistic, i.e. the maximum found error in the audit sample, as computed by calc.e\_p and weighted by w\_p.

Author(s)

Luke W. Miratrix

See Also

find.q stark.test

elec documentation built on April 27, 2022, 1:05 a.m.