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Evaluation

The default setting of JUDGEIT for analysis, evaluation mode examines an election under the actual conditions that took place. Under these conditions, the systematic error component in simulation (the amount estimated by the parameter $ \lambda$ ) is identical, and total error estimates are therefore smaller.

By default, all substantive outputs from judgeit use evaluation mode. For example, using a previously created JUDGEIT object judgeit.object, we can obtain a seats-votes curve using the command

plot(seats(judgeit.object))



Gary King 2010-08-31