redist.find.target: Find Majority Minority Remainder

In redist: Simulation Methods for Legislative Redistricting

Find Majority Minority Remainder

Description

Given a percent goal for majority minority districts, this computes the average value of minority in non-majority minority districts. This value is "tgt_other" in redist.flip and redist_smc.

Usage

redist.find.target(tgt_min, group_pop, total_pop, ndists, nmmd)

Arguments

tgt_min	target group population for majority minority district
group_pop	A vector of populations for some subgroup of interest.
total_pop	A vector containing the populations of each geographic unit.
ndists	The number of congressional districts.
nmmd	The number of majority minority districts.

Value

numeric value to target

redist documentation built on April 3, 2023, 5:46 p.m.