Influencing elections with statistics: targeting voters with logistic regression trees

Influencing elections with statistics: targeting voters with logistic regression trees

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In political campaigning substantial resources are spent on voter mobilization, that is, on identifying and influencing as many people as possible to vote. Campaigns use statistical tools for deciding whom to target ("microtargeting"). In this paper we describe a nonpartisan campaign th...

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Main Authors: Rusch, Thomas, Lee, Ilro, Hornik, Kurt, Jank, Wolfgang, Zeileis, Achim
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) 2013
Subjects:
campaigning / classification tree / get-out-the-vote / model tree / political marketing / voter identification / voter segmentation / voter profile / microtargeting
Online Access:http://epub.wu.ac.at/3979/1/AOAS648.pdf
http://epub.wu.ac.at/3979/7/Supplementary_Material_A_Code_and_Data.zip
http://epub.wu.ac.at/3979/4/Supplementary_Material_B.pdf

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http://epub.wu.ac.at/3979/1/AOAS648.pdf
http://epub.wu.ac.at/3979/7/Supplementary_Material_A_Code_and_Data.zip
http://epub.wu.ac.at/3979/4/Supplementary_Material_B.pdf

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