part_decl: Calculate Declination

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Calculate Declination

Description

Calculate Declination

Usage

part_decl(plans, shp, dvote, rvote, normalize = TRUE, adjust = TRUE)

Arguments

plans	redist_plans object or plans_matrix where each row indicates a district assignment and each column is a plan
shp	redist_map object, tibble, or data frame containing other columns
dvote	unqouted name of column in shp with total population
rvote	unqouted name of column in shp with group population
normalize	Default is TRUE Translate score to an angle?
adjust	Default is TRUE. Applies a correction to increase cross-size comparison.

Value

numeric vector

References

Gregory S. Warrington. 2018. "Quantifying Gerrymandering Using the Vote Distribution." Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy. Pp. 39-57.http://doi.org/10.1089/elj.2017.0447

Examples

data(nh)
data(nh_m)
# For a single plan:
part_decl(plans = nh$r_2020, shp = nh, rvote = nrv, dvote = ndv)

# Or many plans:
part_decl(plans = nh_m[, 3:5], shp = nh, rvote = nrv, dvote = ndv)

redistmetrics documentation built on April 11, 2022, 5:08 p.m.