JUDGEIT can conduct three types of analyses:
- Evaluation, wherein the information gathered from one year's elections is applied to itself. This is done to suggest the underlying structure of an electoral system.
- Prediction, which takes a set of observed covariates and predicts the outcome of an election. This can be done with or without the previous election's results and covariates included explicitly.
- Counterfactual analysis, which estimates the results if the election had been run under different circumstances (i.e. with different predictors.)
Two steps are required to perform a JUDGEIT analysis: election data must be loaded into a JUDGEIT object, and a choice of analysis must be specified along with its required options.
Gary King
2010-08-31