A model for election night forecasting applied to the 2004 South African elections
A novel model has been developed to predict elections on the basis of early results. The electorate is clustered according to their behaviour in previous elections. Early results in the new elections can then be translated into voter behaviour per cluster and extrapolated over the whole electorate....
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA)
2006-06-01
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Series: | ORiON |
Online Access: | http://orion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/35 |