make.opt.packed.bad: make.truth.opt.bad

In elec: Collection of Functions for Statistical Election Audits

make.truth.opt.bad

Description

Generate a “truth” that is optimally bad in the sense of the margin in error is packed into as few precints as possible.

Usage

make.opt.packed.bad(
  Z,
  max.taint = 1,
  max.taint.good = max.taint,
  WPM = FALSE,
  add.good = 0,
  add.random = FALSE
)

Arguments

Z	elec.data object to make bad truth for.
max.taint	max taint for any batch
max.taint.good	max taint in good direction for any batch
WPM	Use WPM bound on error.
add.good	add this amount of margin in good error (i.e. for the winner)
add.random	add a random tweak to error

Details

Make an audit data.frame with the error being exactly 1 margin, and packed into a small number of precincts (with some potential for binding amount of error per precinct).

Warning: error is not necessarily achievable as the discrete nature of whole votes is disregarded.

Value

Return the vote matrix (a data.frame) with tot.votes, e.max, and taint computed (NOT the elec data object).

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