Understanding Elections Through Statistics Polling Prediction And Testing 2nd Edition 2nd Ole J Forsberg by Ole J. Forsberg 9781032684536, 9781032684550, 1032684534, 1032684550 instant download after payment.

Written for those with only a brief introduction to statistics, this book takes you on a statistical journey from how polls are taken to how they can—and should—be used to estimate current popular opinion. Once an understanding of the election process is built, we turn toward testing elections for evidence of unfairness. While holding elections has become the de facto proof of government legitimacy, those electoral processes may hide the dirty little secret of the government, illicitly ensuring a favorable election outcome.

This book includes these features designed to make your statistical journey more enjoyable

Vignettes of elections, including maps, starting each chapter to motivate the material

In-chapter cues to help one avoid the heavy math—or to focus on it

End-of-chapter problems designed to review and extend what was covered in the chapter

Many opportunities to turn the power of the R Statistical Environment to the enclosed election data files, as well as to those you find interesting

The second edition improves upon this and includes

A rewrite of several chapters to make the underlying concepts more clear

A chapter dedicated to confidence intervals, what they mean, and what they do not

Additional experiments to help you better understand the statistics of elections

A new introduction to polling, its terms, its processes, and its ethics

From these features, it is clear that the audience for this book is quite diverse. It provides the statistics