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Usage Overview

JUDGEIT can conduct three types of analyses:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.