Statistical comparison of aggregation rules for votes

✍ Scribed by Michel Truchon; Stephen Gordon

• Book ID: 104045886
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 742 KB
• Volume: 57
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-4896
• DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2008.11.001

✦ Synopsis

If individual voters observe the true ranking on a set of alternatives with error, then the problem of aggregating their observations is one of statistical inference. This study develops a statistical methodology that can be used to evaluate the properties of a given voting or aggregation rule. These techniques are then applied to some well-known rules.